From Pittsburg Landing

Mr. Wm. M. Osborn returned to this city Saturday from Pittsburg Landing, where he has spent a couple of weeks among the camps, hospitals, etc. etc.  He says there is considerable sickness among our troops, who are not acclimated.  The water disagrees with them.  Mrs. Harlan and Mrs. Fales, he thinks are doing more for the sick than all the Governors who have visited Pittsburgh.  Hey are laboring indefatigably and deserve great praise.  One thousand sick Iowa soldiers are in the various camps and hospitals in the vicinity of the late battle field.  Mrs. Harlan will send a steamboat load to Burlington if they can be taken care of.  She has already sent another load to Keokuk, which is expected daily.  She says hospital stores sent from this State to Doctor Douglas are used for general purposes and not for Iowa troops – that she had great difficulty in getting articles contributed by our people to use for our soldiers where they were greatly needed.

Mr. Osborne saw only a portion of our troops – did not get to see those in Gen. Pope’s division.  He says the older regiments are in the best condition – the new ones suffer most from sickness.  The 15^th and 16^th have a large number of sick.  It is not true that the 2^nd Cavalry has been or is to be disbanded.  It is one of the best in the service.  He met Capt. McFarland, of Mt. Pleasant, sick, also Lieutenant, now acting Captain Clune, of this city, sick.  Clune has been well since he entered the service until the present time, and has done remarkably well. – He is well spoken of in the Regiment, as a good and efficient officer, active and courageous, all of which we take pleasure in recording.

Mr. O thinks there will not be a battle there for a week or perhaps more – perhaps not at all.  But of this he is by no means certain.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 1

The following is an abstract . . .

. . . from the first monthly report of the United States General Hospital at Keokuk, May 1^st:

Total number of patients received in hospital – 599

Returned to duty – 11

Furloughed (convalescent) – 210

Died – 42

Buried here but died on boat – 7

Sick now in hospital – 96

Convalescent, detailed for duty at hospital - 89

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862 p. 1

Seneca Brown Thrall

THRALL, SENECA BROWN, was born in Utica, Licking co., O., Aug. 9th, 1832, his father being H. L. Thrall, M. D., for a number of years prof. of chemistry, etc., in Kenyon coll., and subsequently a prominent physician of Columbus, O. Graduating in 1851 from Kenyon, he attended lectures at Starling med. coll., Columbus, in 1851-52, subsequently attending lectures in the med. dep't of the univ. of N. Y., from whence he graduated M. D. in March, 1853. After [practicing] for short periods at Columbus and Belle Centre, O., he finally, in May, 1856, established himself at Ottumwa, Iowa, where he has since remained. During a portion of the war he served in the U. S. army as acting ass't surg., being in the summer of 1862 in hospitals at Keokuk, and from September of that year to May, 1864, attached to the 13th Iowa infantry reg., 17th army corps. He is a member of the American, Iowa, Des Moines valley and Wapello co. med. socs., and Rocky Mountain med. asso.; was secretary of the Iowa soc. in 1864, president in 1869, president pro tern, in 1870, and has been its secretary since 1873. At various limes he has been president and secretary of the Wapello co. soc. He is an hon. member of the California med. soc. For a number of years he has been a member of the Ottumwa city school board, several years ago acting as its president. Several of his articles have been published in the Transactions of the Iowa State med. soc, issued in 1871 and in 1876. He has also read a number of other papers before the State and other societies of which he is a member. Has occasionally contributed articles to periodical medical literature, and frequently to the newspaper press, the latter non-medical, but on various subjects of interest at the time. He was married. May 15th, 1856, to Mary, daughter of Nathan Brooks, of Columbus, Ohio.

SOURCE: William Biddle Atkinson, Editor, The Physicians And Surgeons Of The United States (1878), p. 65

Deaths in Keokuk Post Hospital

May 2 – J Thornburg Co E, 70th Ohio
May 3 – John Trexler Co E 8th Missouri
May 4 – Ed W Elkin Co E 61st Illinois
May 4 – J E Neal, Co A 13th Iowa
May 5 – L M Randolph Co K, 15th Iowa
May 5 – S M Conn Co D 68th Ohio
May 5 –R E Peebles Co E 6th Tenn. pris.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

O. P. SALA

Company A.

Was born in Bee Town, Grant county. Wisconsin, December 22d, 1845. His father, E. M. Sala, was a physician practicing medicine. His mother's name before marriage was Susan Schellanburger. In 1852 his father moved to Ashley, Pike county. Missouri. He moved his family out on a farm three miles from town, and he remained in the town with his father, who was a physician, but too old to practice medicine, and remained in the office and drug store. He remained there about two years, and then moved to West Point, Lee county, Iowa. Here he spent his boyhood days in going to school, attending the West Point Collegiate School three or four years.

In the summer of 1861 he ran away from home and enlisted in Fletcher's flying artillery, which was located at Burlington, Iowa. Being quite young, his father took him out of the battery. He remained at home until the next spring and went to school. Then he went to Keokuk, Iowa, and got a position in the Estis [sic] House Hospital as wound dresser of the first ward. Remained there until August, when he enlisted in the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry, but on the 31st of August was transferred to the First Iowa Cavalry. Joined the regiment at Twin Springs just before the battle of Prairie Grove. On the 1st of January, 1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer, for three years or during the war, and came home on a veteran furlough; in May was sent to the Keokuk Hospital with the ague, and remained there until February, 1865, when he rejoined his regiment at St. Louis, Missouri, and then went to Texas with General Custer, and was mustered out at Austin, Texas, February 15th, 1866.

When he returned home he began the study of medicine again, and during the summer of 1866 went to Keokuk, Iowa, and got a position in Dr. Sanford's Surgical Infirmary, and during the winter he attended what was then called the Iowa State Medical University. In the spring of 1867 he was married to the girl who remained true to him while he was fighting for his country. Miss Ina Stewart, of West Point, Lee county, Iowa. During the summer, fall and spring of 1867-68 his wife taught school and he returned to Keokuk and finished his medical education, and then located in Franklin Center, Iowa, and practiced medicine until the next spring, when he moved to Bloomington, Grant county, Wisconsin, where he has lived ever since. In 1880 his wife died, leaving him with four boys. In 1881 he was married to Alice Bowen, and has two daughters by her, by adoption. He is now in his 44th year, and in good health, all but the rheumatism in his back, caused from the ague while in the United States service. Is a member of Will Hickok Post, No. 134, G. A. R., located at Bloomington, Wisconsin, and a member of Bloomington Lodge, No. 159, I. O. O. F.; also a member of the Blue Lodge, No. 146, A. F. and A. M., of Bee Town, Wisconsin, and of the Chapter at Lancaster, and of the DeMolay Commandery, No. 15, Boscobel, Wisconsin.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 326-8

Deaths in Keokuk Post Hospital

April 27, J. H. Nosler, Co. D, 15th Iowa.
April 27, S. Harrison, Co. K, 11th Iowa.
April 27, J. Davidson, Co. B, 16th Wisconsin.
April 27, M. B. Caldwell, Co. F, 72d Ohio.
April 27, John Christian Co. B, 8th Iowa.
April 27, James Donlan, Co. A, 21st Missouri.
April 27, Lewis Kerk, Co. C, 15th Iowa.
April 28, A. Anderson, Co. E, 43d Illinois.
April 28, Aug. Schaeffer, Co. F, 43d Illinois
April 28, W. S. Hillier, Co. I, 48th Illinois.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

More Nurses Wanted

Dr. Hughes, Superintendent of the Hospital request us to state that several more good male nurses are needed for permanent employment in the Hospital. Apply at once to Dr. Hughes. – Gate City.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Deaths in Keokuk Post Hospital

April 26, J. W. Chapman, Co. _ 8th Ohio.
April 20, Josiah Harris, Co. A, 13th Iowa.
April 20, Patrick Kennedy, Co. G, 12th Illinois.
April 20, Almond Webster, Co. E, 16th Wis.
April 20, Wm. Arnold, Co. G, 48th Ills.
April 20, Geo. J. Miller, Co. E, 16th Wis.

Friends of the deceased are referred to V. T. Perkins, undertaker.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Deceased Iowa Soldiers

AT NASHVILLE.

Stephen Dyrait, private, 15th Iowa, company E, March 23d.


AT CINCINNATI.

Fourth Street Hospital. - A. J. Edwards, co. C 13th Iowa, died April 20th, of a gunshot wound in the lungs.

St. John’s Hospital. – John Luellen, Co. I, 2nd Iowa, died April 19th of a gunshot wound and amputation below the knee; John Hall, Co. C, 13th Iowa, died April 20th, of a gunshot wound and amputation in thigh.


AT ST. LOUIS.

Henry Kirk White, Corporal, Co. G, 2d; John Coffman, Co. K, 15th; Wm. Butler, Corporal, Co. E, 16th; John H. Talbot, co. H, 3d; Selden E. Kirkpatrick, co. E, 2d; Andrew Slatten, co D, 2d; Thomas B. Jones, co. C, 6th; Thomas Sosebee, co. F, 13th; Thomas McKnough, co I, 11th.


AT KEOKUK POST HOSPITAL.

Patrick Looby, co. K, 11th, April 24th.


AT SIMON’S GENERAL HOSPITAL, MOUND CITY.

April 15 – Joseph Hill, Co. G. 3d Iowa.
April 15 – W. Simmons, Co. E, 11th Iowa.
April 12 – Jacob Moore, Co. B, 3d Iowa.
April 18 – H. Layman, Co K, 14th Iowa.
April 19 – Henry Ross, Co. I, 14th Iowa.
April 14 – Dan’l Burkley, Co. I, 15th Iowa.
April 21 – Stephen Cousins, Co. A, 3d Iowa.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Iowa Items

The question of who shall go to Congress is already being agitated in some portions of the State. In the third district, (the northeastern part of the State,) Hon. Reuben Noble has been talked of. He, however, authorizes the McGregor News to say he will not be a candidate for any office the coming election.

The Keokuk Constitution the other day published an article taken from an Ohio paper, justifying the Southern traitors for rising in rebellion against the Government. The Gate City says that copies of the Constitution of that date were circulated among the secesh in the hospital at that place, with the assurance that the sentiments of the people of the North were truly represented in the article in question. An Andy Johnson in Keokuk would soon put a stop to such villainy.

An important act was approved by the Governor on the day of the adjournment of the legislature, relative to the right of widows in the property of their deceased husbands. The act revives the provisions of the code of 1851 on the subject, and gives the widow a title in fee simple to all the property of her husband at the time of his death. Husbands have the same rights in the estates of their deceased wives.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1862, p. 2

Iowa Dead

The following Iowa soldiers died at Mound City, In Simon’s General Hospital, between the 12th and 21st of April:

April 21 – Stephen Cousins, Co. A, 3d inf.
April 12 – Jacob Moore, Co. B, 3d inf.
April 15 – Joseph Hill, Co. G, 3d inf.
April 15 – Wm. Simmons, Co. E, 11th reg.
April 19 – Henry Ross, Co. I, 14th reg.
April 18 – Horace Layman, Co. K, 14th reg.
April 14 – Daniel Buckley, Co. I, 15th reg.

J. T. Marshall, Co. A, 8th regiment, died at Keokuk, or on his way there on the steamer Express last week.

John W. Ellis, Co. H, 15th regiment, died at the Keokuk hospital, on the 22d inst., of typhoid fever.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 28, 1862, p. 2

About 300 more wounded and sick soldiers . . .

. . . arrived at Keokuk on the D. A. January last Wednesday. Albert S. Keeley, Co. H, 14th Iowa, died on the passage. J. W. Ellis, Co. G, 15th Iowa and Wm. Gibson, Co. B, 17th Iowa, died in the Keokuk hospital on the 22d and 23d insts.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 28, 1862, p. 1

Iowa Wounded at Keokuk

A large number of sick and wounded soldiers arrived at Keokuk last Sunday morning on the steamer Empress. Among the names are the following of Iowa soldiers, with their regiments and companies:


SECOND REGIMENT.

C E Dunn, Co G, arm; W H Laird, co I, shoulder.


SIXTH REGIMENT.

N M Larimer, co C, sick; Jas Johnson, co C, sick; L S T Hatton, co E, both hips.


SEVENTH REGIMENT.

W H Vanlandingham, co C, right leg.


EIGHTH REGIMENT.

Daniel Welch, co A, will lose and arm; J L McCulloch, co B, head – slight; John S Christian, co B, left thigh; Jacob Walker, co B, breast; Amos Meritt, co B, leg and arm; W Logan, co B, left side; R Murray, co B, arm; John A Rowan, co B, hand; D J Palmer, co C, shoulder; Mathew Mawhinry, co C, lame knee; Lt E B Plumb, co C, sick; Jacob F Boyer, co C, sick; L M Blakeley, co D, arm; Mason Ogan, co D, leg; Julius Gardner, co D, knee; W H Wolf, co E, right shoulder; B F Wolf, co E, shoulder; W P Wilkin, co E, sick; Melvin Dean, co F, neck; J M Williams, co F, lost left arm; Jacob Harr, co G, elbow; J S Davis, co H, arm; Luther Colvin, co H, hip; E M Blizzard, co H, arm and neck; J L Billings, co H, arm.


ELEVENTH REGIMENT.

John Cochran, co F, left thigh.


THIRTEENTH REGIMENT.

John H Stanly, co C, right shoulder.


FOURTEENTH REGIMENT.

M F Pottorff, co I, sick.


FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.

Jacob Browne, co A, right shoulder; J S Warner, co C, breast; J M Youngblood, co C, right thigh; David Hoff, co C, shoulder; J T Tinbrell, co C, thigh; S P Awtry, co C, leg; C L Kirk, co C, knee; H Burrill, co C, hand and arm; Marian Bayburn, co D, right arm; W F Grey, co D, left hip; Andrew Clark, co D, shoulder; Henry Elmer, co D, left arm; Ben Davis, co E, back of ear; V Porter, co E, left shoulder; George Dehart, co E, left groin; A McKee, co F, neck; John Hoyt, co G, hand; Miles W Judkins, co G, lost left arm; Jas Clark, co H, right thigh; J S Cole, co H, left thigh; H G Vincent, co H, lost a foot; Jonathan Johnson, co H, head and foot; B F Keck, co I breast; Geo H Kuhn, co I shoulder; H B Wyatt, co K, leg; Levi Randolph, co K, jaw; A R Wilcox, co K, thigh.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 2

KEOKUK, April 21, 1862.

ED. GAZETTE – Dear Sir: May God spare me such a sight as I have just seen for a day. 350 wounded men just up from St. Louis. The building is good, attention all that could be asked on the part of soldiers and citizens. To-day four were buried and several more must die. Adj. Gen. Baker is here – very active and efficient, as well as Surgeon Hughes. I send the names of those men where your paper reaches, who are ready to go home. They may get off to-morrow. I think they will recover, yet many wounds are frightful. I have on my list from Iowa that can go home, from other parts of the State.

John Carleton, 11th regt. From Washington.
Jacob Brown, 15th regiment from Cedar Rapids.
Jacob Harr, 8th regt., from Marengo.
Rudolph Murry, 8th regt., from Marshalltown.
Jacob F. Boyer, 8th regt., from Washington.
M. McWhinney, 8th regt., from Washington.
Lt. E. B. Plumb, 8th regt., from Washington.
Jacob Walker, 8th regt., from Muscatine.
Amos Merrit, 8th regt., from Iowa Co.
L.M. Blakely, 8th regt, from Benton Co.
J. S. McCulloch, 8th regt. From Davenport.

In haste, yours,
J. B. GRINNELL

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 1

More Wounded

Four hundred more wounded and sick soldiers were expected at Keokuk, Wednesday evening, on the D. A. January.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 1