Jason D. [Ferguson] gave up his life for his country in the
battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, being then twenty-two years of age. He
enlisted for three months in the First Iowa Volunteer Infantry, while attending
school at Mount Vernon, and after the expiration of that period reenlisted in
the Twelfth Iowa Infantry, at Cedar Rapids, and was made first lieutenant of
Company D. The Grand Army Post at Nevada
is named in his honor. He was the first man from Story county to be killed in
battle.
SOURCE: William Orson Payne, History of Story County, Iowa,
Volume 2, p. 393, abstracted from the biographical sketch of his brother, Hiram
F. Ferguson.
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