Civil War          

 

723 Men Went Off to Battle and 121 Died in Action or of Disease

A number of years ago a committee of three men was appointed to compile a list of Buchanan county men who served during the Civil War. Named to the committee were E. M. Thompson, R. J. O'Brien and J. L. Cherny. This committee with the assistance of G. H. Jakway of Aurora and Job Burnes of Dubuque, compiled a complete list showing the names of county men who served with the Union Army during the Civil War.

In this war 121 county men were either killed in action or died while in service. There were 60 of the men wounded; six of the men were listed as missing in action; and eight were taken prisoner by Southern forces. The causes of death were many. The majority of the men killed died on the battlefields while fighting the enemy forces. Others were taken prisoner and died and there were a number who suffered such diseases as jaundice, typhoid fever, smallpox, dysentery, diarrhea and pneumonia and subsequently died.

One was killed in a railroad collision and there were several who died of accidental wounds or who died during furlough.

Following is a list of the men from this county who died during the Civil War:

 

Brandon

Edwin J. Allen John H. Brown Edwin Fary William C. Gillum John Olar Henry H. Romig

Buffalo Grove

William Allison David Clark William H. Sayre

Fairbank

Hiram G. Balcom John H. Ford John W. Kelsey John C. or W. McCray
Walter S. Munger Washington Richmond George A. Turner Bynear M. Walker

Hazleton

Andrew L. Cassade George Parkes Allen Ware

Madison Township

John V. Osborne

Otter Creek

Milton Milsap

Pilot Grove

Charles K. Baldwin John Campbell Edwin Everett  Elihu Weeks

Quasqueton

Albert C. Alford Amos Andrews Joseph H. Blank Henry French
Jacob Glass James Holland William F. Holland Theodore W. Hyde
Castleton Leatherman John McBane Joseph H. McWilliams Joseph Moore

Wards Corners

William Kenyon Omar P. Whitman

Washington Township

Preston A. Rhinehart

Winthrop

Bartimeus McGonigil John A. Tift

Independence

Marsena Allen Charles Appel Isaac Arwine Robert Y. Baine
Alfred Barber James Bell Thomas Bloden Warren Bouck
Sylvender W. Bowker John Buch William B. Burris Robert Carnes
Charles H. Coleman James Crum Orin J. Curtis Charles Fisheh
Reuben Freeman Electus L. Frizelle Julius Furcht John H. Ginther
Matthias Harter George W. Hathaway Vinson Hollridge Francis Howe
George C. Jordan Alexander B. Lewis Leroy Lewis Charles Marsh
James H. Merrill Levi Overhulser Lewis A. Persall Jackson Rice
Oliver Safford John W. Sanders Charles Spragg John W. Stewart
Benjamin Sutton Richard Whait David E. Wheeler John H. Young

Buchanan County

Renaslaer W. Barr Robert Beith James H. Booth Matthias Brandenburg
Joseph Brown Charles Conlon Franklin B. Fredenburg Peter Gifford
Allen A. Harden Henry Hepshire Charles H. Hightman William O. Hill
James Hitchings Vinson Holman George Hoyt David N. Jewett
Willard H. King Thompson Lewis William L. Lewis Nelson Lines
David McGowan Thomas H. Magill William H. Magill Reuben G. Merrill Sr.
William Milligan William B. Minton Carr W. Mosher Henry Samuels
Ira C. Scott Daniel H. Spears William H. Sutton Hiram N. Thurston
James A. Walton William P. Warren    
 

No Address Given

Hira Hollridge Edwin L. Marsh Bird Norton Edwin T. Plimpton

 

 

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