Thursday, June 2, 2011

Noah H. Griffis

Noah H. Griffis, of Belleville township, enlisted in Co. C, 15th regiment Iowa Volunteers in 1861 and served four years and two months; was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Iuka, Atlanta, Ezra Church; Bentonville, North Carolina, and marched with Sherman to the sea; was first sargeant [sic] of the company, afterward promoted to lieutenant and was in command of the company for one year.

SOURCE: Isaac O. Savage, A History Of Republic County, Kansas, p. 300

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