John W. Guthrie

Private, Co. B, 15th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

John W. Guthrie

Lived before the war near Snider's Post Office, in Jefferson Township, Polk County, Iowa. "Was," says Captain Studer, "a very good and willing soldier; was in the battle of Shiloh, and fought well." Age, nineteen; a private; native of Ohio; enlisted Oct. 25, 1861; died of disease, at Keokuk, June 11,1862. "He bore," says Lieutenant Wilkins, "a good character in the company for morality and honesty. Nobody could dispute his good soldiership."

SOURCE: Leonard Brown, American Patriotism: Or, Memoirs Of Common Men, p. 216-7