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[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Elijah Sells
ELIJAH SELLS was born in Franklin County, Ohio, February 14, 1814. His father served under General Harrison in the War of 1812. The son came to Iowa in 1841, locating at Muscatine, where he engaged in business. He took a deep interest in the free soil movement and at one of the early Whig conventions secured the adoption of resolutions declaring it to be the duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in the Territories. This was the first convention in the State to make the declaration which afterwards became the cardinal doctrine of the Republican party. In 1844 he was a member of the First Constitutional Convention. He was elected a member of the First General Assembly of the State and again in 1852 served in the House. Mr. Sells was a delegate to the convention which organized the Republican party, was nominated for Secretary of Stare and elected. He was twice reelected, serving six years. In 1863 he was appointed paymaster in the army and afterwards held a position in the navy. He also served as Third Auditor of the Treasury. In 1865 he was appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs in one of the southern districts and removed to Kansas. He served three terms in the Kansas Legislature and in 1878 removed to Utah. In 1889 he was appointed Secretary of Utah Territory, serving four years. Mr. Sells died at Salt Lake City, March 13, 1897. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 37th Regiment
by Cathy Joynt Labath
Forwarded with permission... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iowa Old Press" <IowaOldNews(a)sharylscabin.com> : Morning Oregonian : Portland, Oregon : February 27, 1863 : : An extraordinary Regiment from Iowa. -- One of the most extraordinary : regiments in the national service, is the 37th Iowa volunteers, Col. J.B. : Kincaid. The regiment is over one thousand strong, and has been raised since : the 1st of September. It is composed of men who were originally exempt from : military service at the time of their enlistment, and a very large majority : of the men are over forty-five years of age. There are nearly 600 professed : Christians, including thirty ministers. More than half the men owned the : houses they lived in before enlisting, and more than a third have sons in : the army. Many of the men are worth from $25,000 to $80,000. The oldest : man in the regiment is near 80 years old, and he has two sons and a grandson : already in the army. When the regiment left Iowa it was pronounced the : healthiest regiment by far that ever encamped in that State, the sickness : not amounting to one-tenth of that of some others. These white-haired old : men now trudge the streets of St. Louis with muskets on their shoulders, : picking up stray soldiers and guarding head-quarters with all the : cheerfulness of a glory-loving soldier. the ordinary incentives to a : soldier's life -- glory, popularity, renown or pay -- have no charm for : them; and their enlistment must be attributed solely to a desire to serve : their country. They appear to enjoy good health, though an exchange of the : bracing climate of Iowa, for the warm, humid atmosphere of St. Louis, must : be very trying indeed, to their constitutions. The regiment will be honored : and praised in the history of this war. : : -------- : submitted by S. Ferrall : www.iowaoldpress.com :
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of John Scott
JOHN SCOTT was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, April 14, 1824. He attended the common schools until sixteen years of age when he began to teach. He came to Iowa in 1843 but returned to Ohio and Kentucky, teaching school until May, 1846, when he enlisted in a regiment of Kentucky volunteers fitting out for the Mexican War. In 1847 he, with Cassius M. Clay and seventy others, was taken prisoner and marched to the City of Mexico where they were held in captivity for eight months. From 1852 to 1854 he was editor of the Kentucky Whig. He removed to Iowa in 1856, locating in Nevada, where he was engaged in farming and real estate. In 1859 he was elected to represent the counties of Story, Boone, Hardin and Hamilton in the State Senate. He served in the regular session of 1860 and the war session of 1861 and then resigned to enter the Union army. Mr. Scott was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Third Regiment and was in command at the Battle of Blue Mills, engaging a superior army of the enemy. In 1862 he was promoted to colonel of the Thirty-second Infantry where he served with distinction until May, 1864, being engaged in many severe conflicts. In 1867 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa on the Republican ticket, serving two years. In 1870 Colonel Scott was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, holding the office until it was discontinued. He has been intimately associated with the industrial progress of the State for more than a quarter of a century and has been president of the State Agricultural Society, of the State Road Improvement Association, the Improved Stock Breeders' Association and delegate to the National Agricultural Congress. He was for many years an able contributor to agricultural journals. In 1885 he was again elected to the State Senate where he was the author of the bill to establish a State Board of Control for the various public institutions. He has several times come within a few votes of the nomination for Congress in Republican conventions. Colonel Scott is the author of several books. In 1849 he published a narrative of the imprisonment of himself and companions during the Mexican War. In 1895 he published a "Genealogy of Hugh Scott" and his descendants, and the "Story of the Thirty-second Iowa Volunteers." In 1896 Colonel Scott was elected president of the "Pioneer Lawmakers' Association." Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of William F. Sapp
WILLIAM F. SAPP was born at Danville, Ohio, November 23, 1824. He received an academic education and studied law at Mount Vernon with Columbus Delano. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and began practice at Mount Vernon. In 1854 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, holding that position four years. In 1860 he removed to Omaha and later became a member of the Territorial Legislature. He was appointed Adjutant-General and in 1862 was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Second Nebraska Cavalry. After the war he made his home at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and practiced law. In 1866 he was a Representative in the Eleventh General Assembly of Iowa. In 1869 he was appointed by president Grant United States District Attorney for Iowa, serving until 1873. In 1878 he was nominated by the Republicans of the Eighth District for Representative in Congress and elected, serving but one term. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of James P. Sanford
JAMES P. SANFORD was born in Seneca County, New York, November 11, 1832. When thirteen years of age he went to South America and spent four years in that country, Mexico and the West India Islands. In 1851 he located in New Orleans where he remained until 1855 when he removed to Iowa, taking up his residence at Bentonsport. The following year he became a Universalist minister, preaching his first sermon at Big Rock in Scott County on the 22d of March, 1856. He was a public speaker of unusual ability and eloquence and rose rapidly in the profession until in a few years he became one of the most famous ministers in Iowa. Early in the Civil War Mr. Sanford enlisted in the Second Iowa Cavalry and was commissioned first lieutenant and was afterwards promoted to captain. Upon the organization of the Forty-seventh Infantry he was commissioned colonel of that regiment. In 1864 he retired from the service and went to Europe, making an extensive tour of the countries of the old world. Upon his return he lectured on foreign lands and people he had visited. Mr. Sanford crossed the ocean fifteen times and extended his travels into almost every country of the eastern world. Possessed of rare descriptive powers and pleasing address, Colonel Sanford soon won national fame as a lecturer on foreign countries. He eventually became one of the most extensive travelers in America as well as one of the most notable lecturers. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Addison H. Sanders
ADDISON H. SANDERS was born on the 13th of September, 1823, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His education was begun in a printing office of his native city and completed at Cincinnati College. In 1845 and again in 1846 he came to Davenport, where his brother Alfred, was struggling to put his Gazette on a paying basis. During each of these visits he stayed several months, taking editorial charge of the paper and thus relieving his overworked brother, so that he might bring the business department into better condition. When the city had grown large enough to demand a daily paper, Addison H. removed to Davenport, in October, 1856, took editorial charge of the Daily Davenport Gazette and continued in that position until he entered the Union army. At the beginning of the Civil War no newspaper in Iowa had wider influence that the Daily Gazette of Davenport. Early in 1861, Add. H. Sanders was commissioned aid to Governor Kirkwood, serving with Judge Baldwin of Council Bluffs and later in the year he was placed in command of Camp McClellan, at Davenport, where the Union volunteers were mustering for the organization of regiments and for drill. The Sixteenth Regiment was organized early in the winter of 1862 and Governor Kirkwood was so impressed with the excellent work and superior qualifications of Add. H. Sanders, that he offered him the position of colonel of the new regiment. But having observed the disadvantage of placing inexperienced officers at the head of new regiments he declined the command, urging the selection of a regular army officer for the place. The Governor and General Baker realized the wisdom of such a selection and Captain Alexander Chambers of the Eighteenth United Stares Infantry was appointed colonel and Mr. Sanders was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. The regiment received its "baptism of fire" at the desperate and bloody battle of Shiloh and at Corinth, Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders was wounded very severely. He did gallant service during the war, often in command of the regiment. At the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Colonel Sanders was taken prisoner, suffering everything but death in the Confederate prison and when exchanged was so low with starvation and fever that for a long time his recovery was doubtful. On the 2d of April, 1865, he was discharged from the service for disability, having been brevetted Brigadier-General for gallant conduct on many battle-fields Upon his return home, he was appointed postmaster of Davenport. In 1870 he was appointed by President Grant Secretary of Montana Territory and became acting Governor. In 1872 he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office for Montana. He returned to his old home at Davenport where for many years he has done editorial work on several of the daily papers. As a writer, General Sanders has for a third of a century ranked among the ablest in the State. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Ezekiel S. Sampson
EZEKIEL S. SAMPSON was born in Huron County, Ohio, on the 6th of December, 1831. When a small boy his father removed to Illinois and in 1843 located on a farm in Keokuk County, Iowa. The son worked on his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age, attending the district school winters. He then learned to set type and earned money as a printer to pay his way in the higher schools until he secured a good education. In 1854 he went to Oskaloosa and began the study of law with Enoch W. Eastman and Samuel A. Rice and in the following year was admitted to the bar. He began to practice at Sigourney and in 1856 was elected Prosecuting Attorney. Early in 1861 he helped to raise a company for the Union army and was appointed captain of Company F, which was assigned to the Fifth Infantry. In May, 1862, he was promoted to major of the regiment, serving in that position until 1864, when it was mustered out. In 1865 he was elected to the State Senate and after serving one session was chosen District Judge and remained on the bench by reelection until 1874 when he was elected to Congress. Mr. Sampson served four years in the House of Representatives from the Sixth District, retiring in 1879 and resuming the practice of law. He died at his home in Sigourney on the 7th of October, 1892. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of David Ryan
DAVID RYAN is a native of Hebron, New York, where he was born on March 15, 1840. His parents removed to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1857, and there the son received his education. In 1859 he entered Central University which he left to enlist in the Eighth Iowa Infantry. He was commissioned first lieutenant and served with his command in every engagement until 1865. His regiment participated in the desperate conflict at the "Hornet's Nest" in the Battle of Shiloh, where Lieutenant Ryan was taken prisoner. He experienced the horrors of Libby prison as well as Montgomery and Macon. After being exchanged he was promoted to captain of Company E, and participated in the siege and battles of Vicksburg. In 1864 he was appointed colonel of the Second Regiment of Enrolled Militia of Tennessee. In 1865 Colonel Ryan was elected Representative of the House of the Eleventh General Assembly. He had graduated at the Iowa Law School after leaving the army, and entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1886 he was elected judge of the Sixth Judicial District, serving in that position for three terms. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Nicholas J. Rusch
NICHOLAS J. RUSCH was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1822. He received a liberal education and taught school several years. In 1847 he emigrated to America and located on a farm near Davenport, Iowa. He was a young man of fine ability and studious habits and soon acquired a knowledge of the language, laws and institutions of his adopted country. A Republican in politics he was an influential leader among the German Americans. In 1857 he was nominated by the Republicans of Scott County for State Senator and was elected by a large majority. He attained prominence in the session of 1858 as a Senator and in 1859 was nominated by the Republican State Convention for Lieutenant-Governor on the ticket with Samuel J. Kirkwood. After a campaign of unusual vigor they were elected. Lieutenant-Governor Rusch presided with dignity and ability over the Senate during the regular session of 1860 and the war session of 1861 but was not a candidate for reelection. In May, 1860, he was appointed by Governor Kirkwood Commissioner of Immigration and served two years with great efficiency. In 1862 Governor Rusch was appointed to a position in the Commissary Department of the military service in the Civil War, with the rank of captain. In 1864 he died in the service of Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the age of forty-two. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of John N. W. Rumple
JOHN N. W. RUMPLE was born near Fostoria, Ohio, March 4, 1841. In 1853 he came to Iowa in an emigrant wagon, taking up his residence on a farm near Geneva Bluffs, Iowa County. He attended the district school and in 1857 entered Ashland Academy in Wapello County. Later he continued his studies in Western College and the Normal Department of the State University, teaching meanwhile to defray his expenses in college. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Second Iowa Cavalry as a private, remaining in the service until 1865 when he was mustered out a captain. He participated in the battles of Island Number Ten, New Madrid, Corinth, Iuka, Grierson's Raid, Tupelo, Nashville and many minor engagements. Returning from the army Captain Rumple entered the law office of Hon. H. M. Martin of Marengo and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He was elected to the State Senate of the adjourned session of 1873, and served by reelections in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth General Assemblies. For six years he was a member of the Board of Regents of the State University and was also one of the curators of the State Historical Society. In 1900 he was elected Representative in Congress from the Second District and declined reelection on account of failing health. He died in Chicago in January, 1903. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Gifford S. Robinson
GIFFORD S. ROBINSON was born on the 28th of May, 1843, in Tazewell County, Illinois. He spent two years in the State Normal University, then took a two-year course in the Law Department of Washington University at St. Louis. He taught three years, a portion of the time in the Preparatory Department of the University. In August, 1862, he enlisted a a private in the One Hundred Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served in several of the great battles of the war, among which were Franklin and Chickamauga, where he was severly wounded and discharged from the service in consequence. He came to Iowa in 1870, locating at Storm Lake in Buena Vista County where he entered upon the practice of law. Mr. Robinson was soon after chosen mayor of the town and in 1875 was elected to the House of the Sixteenth General Assembly to represent the seventy-first District, consisting of the counties of Buena Vista, Pocahontas, Palo Alto and Emmet. Becoming widely known as a legislator of unusual ability in the fall of 1881 he was nominated by the Republican Convention of the district composed of the counties of Woodbury, Plymouth, Sioux, Lyon, Cherokee and Buena Vista for State Senator. He was elected, serving six years with marked ability. In the spring of 1887 he was appointed Railroad Commissioner by Governor Larrabee, but declined. At the Republican State Convention in the summer of 1887, he was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court and elected in October. He became Chief Justice in 1892 and at the close of his term was reelected. he retired in January, 1900, removed to Sioux City and resumed the practice of law. But he was not long left in private life, for in February of the same year he was appointed by Governor Shaw member of the State Board of Control for six years. Judge Robinson was a lecturer before the Law Department of the State University, from 1890 to 1900. In June, 1895, the State University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
Re: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] IA-33rd Infantry Regiment
Vicky, I found Ioka listed in both Keokuk County and Jefferson County as an abandoned town. Ioka appears on a list of abandoned towns in Jackson township, Keokuk Co., with a post office between 1858 and 1902. Ioka in Jefferson Co. was in Polk township. The counties share a border in SE Iowa. After enlisting, soldiers gathered in different camps around the state but all eventually made their way to the Mississippi River town of Keokuk, Lee County, in the far SE corner of the Iowa. The Mississippi River was the avenue for shipping Iowa soldiers south. Today at a small area near the river, overshadowed by the bridge spanning the river, is a small stone with a plaque stating that from that spot many soldiers left for the South. There is also a small cannon positioned there, facing south. No reason for John Hux's discharge was listed in the Rosters. In Nov. 1863 the 33rd Iowa was in Arkansas and took part in an unsuccessful expedition chasing CSA General Marmaduke from Pine Bluff to Rockport. This was the last activity that the 33rd Iowa engaged in before the end of the year. If John Hux was wounded in that action he might have been sent north, and then discharged in Dec., but of course, there might also have been other reasons, such as illness. You might consider ordering his military service records or his pension records from the National Archives, which might contain that information. Good luck! Sue > My several times great grandfather, John HUX was in the Iowa 33rd Infantry > Regiment company B. Does anyone know what town or area this company left > Iowa from? One note I found said he joined in Ioka, Iowa. Does anyone know > what county that is in or was? > > He was a private, enlisted on 13 Aug. 1862 at age 34. Found that on > Ancestry.com yesterday. Our library has a subscription so I've been digging, > but can't seem to find more info for the above. It had a whole list of names > for this company, if anyone is interested I'll get a copy and send you what > I can. > > This also states he was discharged in Davenport on 12-24, 1863 but gives no > reasons for the discharge. Any ideas where I can find out that information? > > Vicky
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Benjamin S. Roberts
BENJAMIN S. ROBERTS was born in Manchester, Vermont, on the 18th of November, 1810. He graduated at the Military Academy at West Point in 1835, and was commissioned a second lieutenant. In 1839 he resigned and became chief engineer of a railroad company and later was Assistant State Geologist for New York. He finally studied law and in 1844 located at Fort Madison, Iowa, where he practiced law. When the Mexican War began in 1846 he returned to the service and was appointed first lieutenant in a regiment of mounted riflemen. Mr. Roberts greatly distinguished himself in the campaign of General Scott against the City of Mexico. He led the advance into the city and with his own hands raised the American flag over the ancient palace of the Montezumas. At the close of the war he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. In 1849 the Iowa Legislature bestowed upon him a sword of honor for his gallant services during the war. When the Civil War began Colonel Roberts was in command of the southern district of New Mexico, where he routed the Confederate army and saved the Territory to the Union. In 1862 he was promoted to Brigadier-General and became Inspector-General of General Pop's army in Virginia. In June, 1863, he was assigned to the command of the Department of Iowa with headquarters at Davenport. He served with distinguished ability to the close of the war. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
by David Wildman
Vicky, The original Colonel of the regiment was Samuel Allen Rice. He was a successful and very popular politician from Muhaska county. Muhaska county furnished four companies, Keokuk county on the east three, and Marion county on the west three. The rendezvous was at Oskaloosa, in Muhaska county, on the county fair grounds at Camp Tuttle. Dave -----Original Message----- From: VLB [mailto:lyonslady@frontiernet.net] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:17 AM To: IA-CIVIL-WAR-L(a)rootsweb.com Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] IA-33rd Infantry Regiment My several times great grandfather, John HUX was in the Iowa 33rd Infantry Regiment company B. Does anyone know what town or area this company left Iowa from? One note I found said he joined in Ioka, Iowa. Does anyone know what county that is in or was? He was a private, enlisted on 13 Aug. 1862 at age 34. Found that on Ancestry.com yesterday. Our library has a subscription so I've been digging, but can't seem to find more info for the above. It had a whole list of names for this company, if anyone is interested I'll get a copy and send you what I can. This also states he was discharged in Davenport on 12-24, 1863 but gives no reasons for the discharge. Any ideas where I can find out that information? Vicky <lyonslady(a)frontiernet.net> <Prayers4u(a)smartgroups.com> <Reandeau-L(a)rootsweb.com> The world is a better place for knowing you. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 10/22/2003 ==== IA-CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== Missed messages? Check our archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] IA-33rd Infantry Regiment
by VLB
My several times great grandfather, John HUX was in the Iowa 33rd Infantry Regiment company B. Does anyone know what town or area this company left Iowa from? One note I found said he joined in Ioka, Iowa. Does anyone know what county that is in or was? He was a private, enlisted on 13 Aug. 1862 at age 34. Found that on Ancestry.com yesterday. Our library has a subscription so I've been digging, but can't seem to find more info for the above. It had a whole list of names for this company, if anyone is interested I'll get a copy and send you what I can. This also states he was discharged in Davenport on 12-24, 1863 but gives no reasons for the discharge. Any ideas where I can find out that information? Vicky <lyonslady(a)frontiernet.net> <Prayers4u(a)smartgroups.com> <Reandeau-L(a)rootsweb.com> The world is a better place for knowing you. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 10/22/2003
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] Great Old Photos Site
by Elaine Rathmann
Hello all, I ran across this site, Vintage Classics Collection, as I was surfing last night. It's wonderful! It has hundreds of old photos from the Sooners Land Rush, to spiffy folks in model Ts and tired pioneers. Try it, you'll like it, I promise! :-) (And no, I'm not connected with it in any way, shape or form!) http://www.tssphoto.com/vint_hum/index.html Elaine
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] A recent posting
Good Evening, Sometime recently, someone had a posting concerning a soldier whose surname was Orr. I though I saved it, but sure can't find it. Would that "poster" please resend that message or contact me? We believe that this soldier could possibly belong to my cousin. Her maternal grandfather was an ORR from Iowa. Thanks Barb Durant in Denver Always looking for Durant in Jackson County, Ia
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Samuel A. Rice
SAMUEL A. RICE was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, on the 27th of January, 1828. His boyhood was spent in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He graduated at the seminary at Wheeling, Virginia, and the State University of Ohio. He took two years' instruction in a law school and in 1850 located at Fairfield, Iowa, where he opened a law office. In 1852 he removed to Okaloosa and entered into partnership with E. W. Eastman, where a large practice was built up. In 1856 Mr. Rice was a delegate to the famous convention at Iowa City which organized the Republican party to Iowa and was the Republican candidate for Attorney-General. He was elected and reelected for a second term in 1858, serving four years. In August, 1862, Mr. Rice was appointed colonel of the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry and soon after entered upon active military duties in the War of the Rebellion. He commanded a brigade in the Battle of Helena and was promoted to Brigadier-General. His command was in General Steele's expedition through Arkansas and Louisiana in 1864 and during the retreat did excellent service at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry, where General Rice was mortally wounded. He was taken home where he died on the 6th of July, 1864, greatly lamented by the people of Iowa. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Elliott W. Rice
ELLIOTT W. RICE, a brother of General Samuel A. Rice, was born on the 16th of November, 1835, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Franklin College, Ohio, and took the law course at the Albany Law School. In 1855 he came to Iowa and entered into partnership with his brother in the practice of law at Oskaloosa. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Seventh Iowa Volunteers and rose rapidly through successive promotions to the rank of colonel and upon the promotion of Lauman to Brigadier-General, Rice succeeded him in command of the Seventh Regiment. At the Battle of Belmont the command of the regiment devolved upon Rice at the most critical period of the conflict and his superb gallantry won him his promotion. He was in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Iuka and Corinth. Colonel Rice commanded a brigade in Sherman's march to the sea and on the 29th of June, 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier-General. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
[IA-CIVIL-WAR] Texas Burials Unknown
These are the names I pulled from the _Roster and Record..._ of soldiers originally buried in the National Cemetery at Brownsville, Texas. I'm assuming they were intended to remain there, and were not at any time moved to their home state. Blair, William. Co. D, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 25. Residence Fort Atkinson, nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 18, 1862. Mustered Sept. 27, 1862. Died of disease Jan. 8, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Hardy, Richard. Co. A, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 19. Residence Allamakee County, nativity Michigan. Enlisted Dec. 24, 1863. Mustered Dec. 24, 1863. Died of disease June 9, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Kerr, James N. Co. A, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 19. Residence Fredericksburgh, nativity Wisconsin. Enlisted Aug. 15, 1862. Mustered Sept. 6, 1862. Transferred to Company K, Nov. 3, 1862. Returned to Company Dec. 1, 1862. Died of disease June 9, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Luce, Elijah W. Co. F, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 37. Residence West Union, nativity Vermont. Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Died of disease Jan. 17, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Moe, Perry. Co. K, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 18. Residence Brush Creek, nativity Michigan. Enlisted Aug. 19, 1862. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Died Dec. 26, 1863, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. See Company F. Parks Herman H. Co. C, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 41. Residence Williamstown, nativity Ohio. Enlisted Aug. 21, 1862. Mustered Sept. 12, 1862. Died of disease Feb. 4, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Sholts, Henry L. Co. C, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 27. Residence Fredericksburgh, nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, as First Corporal. Mustered Sept. 12, 1862. Promoted Fifth Sergeant Nov. 4, 1862; Second Sergeant Oct. 1, 1863. Died of disease March 16, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Witherell, Loren. Co. G, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 20. Residence West Union, nativity Vermont. Enlisted Feb. 29, 1864. Mustered Feb. 29, 1864. Died of disease July 12, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville; Texas. Warren, Abel. Co. H, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 28. Residence Elgin, nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered Nov. 4, 1862. Died of disease Nov. 27, 1863, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Weed, George W. Co. K, 38th Iowa Infantry. Age 19, Residence Fremont, nativity Pennsylvania. Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, as Fifer. Mustered Oct. 6, 1862. Died of disease Dec. 2, 1863, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Cochran, John. Co. E, 19th Iowa Infantry. Age 26. Residence Dover, nativity Iowa. Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862. Mustered Aug. 23, 1862. Promoted Eighth Corporal Feb. 12, 1863; Seventh Corporal; Sixth Corporal May 17, 1863. Died of disease Jan. 19, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Section G, grave 30. Denning, Robert. Co. H, 19th Iowa Infantry. Age 35. Residence Brownsville, Texas, nativity England. Enlisted Jan. 25, 1864. Mustered Jan. 25, 1864. Died of disease Feb. 8, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Helwick, Amos. Co. C, 19th Iowa Infantry. Age 27. Residence Washington, nativity Pennsylvania. Enlisted Feb. 9, 1864. Mustered March 3, 1864. Died of disease April 3, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Jay, Mills. Co. K, 19th Iowa Infantry. Age 18. Residence Mt. Pleasant, nativity Iowa. Enlisted July 12, 1863. Mustered July 12, 1863. Died of disease Nov. 22, 1863, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Stanford, Isaac F. Co. B, 19th Iowa Infantry. Age 21. Residence Fairfield, nativity Iowa. Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered Aug. 18, 1862. Wounded severely Dec. 7, 1862, Prairie Grove, Ark. Died July 10, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. See Company H, Thirty-seventh Infantry. Vaness, John E. Co. D, 19th Iowa Infantry. Age 18. Residence Abingdon, nativity Iowa. Enlisted July 21, 1863. Mustered Sept. 22, 1863. Died Dec. 26, 1863, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Tex. Ribble, Henry C. Co. I, 20th Iowa Infantry. Age 19. Residence Kingston City, nativity New York. Enlisted Dec. 21, 1863. Mustered Jan. 7, 1864. Died of disease July 1, 1864, Brownsville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Keyes, Asa John. Co. E, 29th Iowa Infantry. Age 21. Residence Muscatine, nativity Indiana. Enlisted Dec. 10, 1863. Mustered Dec. 10, 1863. Died of disease July 17, 1865, Clarksville, Texas. Buried in National Cemetery, Brownsville, Texas. Section H, grave 74. My source is: "Roster and Records of Iowa Troops in the Rebellion, Vols. I-VI." Civil War and Iowa: Greyhounds and Hawkeyes. CD-ROM. Creston, IA: O. J. Fargo, 2000. Sue Trout Reisdorph [see below -- hope I didn't miss any]
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