Rufus H. Eldredge

Rufus H. Eldredge, the First Quarter-Master Sergeant of the Regiment, was afterward the First Lieutenant of Company K. He fell in action in the advance of his Company, at Corinth, in the presence of the writer of this. In all work he was prompt and faithful, and his bearing in battle could not be surpassed.

SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 46