1st Sergeant, Companies I & D, 39th Iowa Infantry
Age (at enlistment): 30
Residence: Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa
Nativity: Maine
Enlisted: August 9, 1862
Mustered In: November 20, 1862
Mustered Out: June 5, 1865, Washington D. C.
“Orderly Serg’t. Pike was unable to march on account of a sore foot,” wrote Thomas R. Oldham in a letter published in The Union Sentinel on December 5, 1863. He was left at Eastport, Alabama to be sent down the Tennessee River to rejoin his regiment at a later date. Capt. L. D. Bennett reported in a letter dated December 18, 1863 that "Sergt. Pike is now at Louisville Ky. in the Hospital. He is afflicted with rheumatism"
Sources: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System; Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers During the War of the Rebellion, Volume 5, p. 1015; “A Letter from the 39th Regiment,” The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, December 5, 1863; "Letter from Capt. L. D. Bennett of the 39th," The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, January 2, 1864
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A Letter from the 39th Regiment
Age (at enlistment): 30
Residence: Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa
Nativity: Maine
Enlisted: August 9, 1862
Mustered In: November 20, 1862
Mustered Out: June 5, 1865, Washington D. C.
“Orderly Serg’t. Pike was unable to march on account of a sore foot,” wrote Thomas R. Oldham in a letter published in The Union Sentinel on December 5, 1863. He was left at Eastport, Alabama to be sent down the Tennessee River to rejoin his regiment at a later date. Capt. L. D. Bennett reported in a letter dated December 18, 1863 that "Sergt. Pike is now at Louisville Ky. in the Hospital. He is afflicted with rheumatism"
Sources: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System; Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers During the War of the Rebellion, Volume 5, p. 1015; “A Letter from the 39th Regiment,” The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, December 5, 1863; "Letter from Capt. L. D. Bennett of the 39th," The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, January 2, 1864
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A Letter from the 39th Regiment
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