Military > Civil War > Fallen Soldiers > 15th & 16th Infantry

The list of dead is as follows:  William M. Gepson, Amos Kiser, Francis M. Wakefield, Wilson Rickbaugh, Mahlon Freeman and Daniel Hardsaw; also John W. M. Young, of Company K; also, William J. McCoy, Nathan Thornton and Jason L. Ellis, of the Eighteenth Regiment.

Of the Twenty-Second Regiment, the list is:  Isaac W. Winterhalter, Samuel Story, and James P. McCullough.

This Regiment rendezvoused at Des Moines, and was mustered into United States service September 19th, 1862.  The following citizens of Polk County received commissions in this Regiment:  Charles J. Clark, Leonard B. Houston, William H. Ward, Matthew C. Brown, Joel M. Walker, Robert W. Cross, William Merrill, Arthur J. Barton, Theodore G. Cree, Stephen Waterbury, Henry Crabtree, Chancey A. Williams, Francis Weitman, James C. Gregg, J. A. T. Hull, Benjamin Jennings, Lyle A. Garrett, William H. Downs and William E. Houston.  This list embraces officers whose names are as familiar as household words to our people.  They were men who did their whole duty on the tented field, and in the battle storm; and in the walks of civil life they are known and honored of their fellow men.

The names of the dead are:  Alfred M. Lyon, Charles S. Hepburn, Francis M. Burgett, Andre Thompson, John B. and James A. Saylor, Donald C. Sharp, George C. Stevens, William Mosgrove, John Virtue, John Filmer, Henry H. Beeson, William P. Johnson, Benj. F. Nussbaum, Geo. M. Nicholas, Randolph Foster Harber, Geo. W. Grigsby, Laurence Leonard, Enoch Beighler, Daniel Condit, Elijah Koons, Henry J. Millard, Thomas McDowell, Benjamin W. Henkle, Clark Wilson, Lorenzo D. Dunwoody, John Mercer, Sergeant William Benell, John Milton Juvenall, Benj. P. West, Smith C. Robison, William R. Harvey, John Brown, David Melson, John Gardner Webb, Lemuel M. Carison, Sergeant James O'Bleness, Lieut. Wm. H. Downs, William and John T. Bull, Samuel Enfield, Sergeant Wm. Kysar, James Scarbrough, Wm. H. Vice, Lewis M. Daily, Henry C. West, Corwin Brown Frederick, Porter N. Darling, David and William Henry Mattern, John W. and Elisha C. Sherrill, John H. Journey,  William Sunday, John Q. Jameson, Corporal Wm. Wilson, Jacob L. Springer, Luther W. Stanhope, Robert H. Fink, Jno. M. Rosecrans, Jno. N. Pollock, Sergeant Daniel J. and Archibald Sturgeon, George W. Fox, Enoch Harlan, Sergeant Jacob B. Moon, Jonathan W. Powers, Jacob Boyer, Richard Hammer, Gustavus V. Cowgill and Thomas J. Hudson

The names also of Emery Jones and John Wilson Trent, of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, we report in this connexion.

The dead of the Thirty-Second are: Elias Modlin, Francis Luellen, and George H. Dunlap.  Of the Thirty-Third, Hance Ferguson.

Source: Centennial History of Polk County, Iowa by J. M. Dixon, Blind Editor, printed 1876, pp. 121-123. Names placed in bold to increase readability.