Friday, June 17, 2011

Levi R. Hester

A Private in Company B, 16th Iowa Infantry Volunteers; age, twenty-seven; residence, Des Moines (according to the Reports of Adjutant-General of Iowa); native of Indiana; went into quarters Oct. 10, 1861 ; mustered into United States service, Dec. 11,1861; died Oct. 12,1862, of wounds received at Iuka.

SOURCE: Leonard Brown, American Patriotism: Or, Memoirs Of "Commen Men", p.230

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