Company A.
Sergeant Walter S. Gray, of Keokuk, Iowa, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1831, where he resided until 1855, when he located in Indiana. In 1856 he removed to Keokuk and engaged in the pork packing business until the financial crisis of 1857, when he went to Memphis, Tennessee, and engaged in the sash, door and blind manufacture. He remained there until 1861, when all Unionists were driven from the city, losing all he had. He returned to Keokuk and immediately enlisted. Re-enlisted with the regiment in 1864, but was rejected because of ill health, and discharged in September of the same year with others of the regiment. Since then has been engaged in the lumber business at Keokuk.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 328
Sergeant Walter S. Gray, of Keokuk, Iowa, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1831, where he resided until 1855, when he located in Indiana. In 1856 he removed to Keokuk and engaged in the pork packing business until the financial crisis of 1857, when he went to Memphis, Tennessee, and engaged in the sash, door and blind manufacture. He remained there until 1861, when all Unionists were driven from the city, losing all he had. He returned to Keokuk and immediately enlisted. Re-enlisted with the regiment in 1864, but was rejected because of ill health, and discharged in September of the same year with others of the regiment. Since then has been engaged in the lumber business at Keokuk.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 328
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