David Holcombe, an early settler of Algona, enlisted September 25, 1861, in Company D, Sixteenth Iowa Infantry. He was badly wounded on Sunday, April 6, 1862, at the battle of Shiloh, dying on the 17th of the following May. He lies buried on lot A, grave 292, in the National cemetery, Cincinnati. At the time of enlistment he was twenty-nine years old. The report of his death was the first intelligence the people here received of the loss of a Kossuth soldier in the Civil war.
SOURCE: Benjamin F. Reed, History of Kossuth County, Iowa, Volume 1, p. 184
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