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List of Killed and Wounded in the 14th Regiment Iowa Infantry, at the battle of Fort Donelson, February 13th, 14th, and 15th, 1862

REGIMENT STAFF.

Killed – [Sergeant] Major J. H. Smith, shot through the head.

COMPANY D.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Second Lieut. Wm. Gordon, slight wound on hip from piece of shell; Privates Augusts Morti, slight wound on hand; Stephen Joy, slight wound in the knee; Watson Long, slight wound in side.

COMPANY F.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Sergt. Eli Coddington, left arm badly shattered and amputated; Privates, Edward Edgar, hand, slight; James Coughnour, hand, slight.

COMPANY G.

Killed – Private Thomas Snelling.

Wounded – Privates James Fox, shoulder, slight; Charles Ford, spent ball in stomach, slight, First Lieut. George Pemberton, spent ball in breast, slight.

COMPANY H.

Killed -  None.

Wounded – Sergt. Jacob L. Wright, shot thro’ the hand, slight; Privates, Benj. L. Gowing, in the foot, slight; Erhardt Burk, in wrist, slight; Dewit C. Clothier, hand, slight; David Patterson, spent ball in the ankle, slight; Burtis M. Gurd, wrist, slight; Mather Neely, in head, recovering rapidly; Geo. Harris, leg; Dan’l B. Widell, shoulder.


COMPANY I.

Killed – Color Corporal Willard Hall, shot in the head.

Wounded – Privates, Henry C. Boyer shot in the cheek, slight, Grannison Reeder, in side, by piece of shell.

COMPANY K.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Privates, William Lenty, grape shot in back, mortally; Hopkins Smith spent ball in shoulder, slight.

RECAPITULATION.

Killed – Staff, one; Corporal, one; Privates one.

Wounded – Lieutenants, one; Sergeants, two; Privates, nineteen.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1

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