Company F, Sixteenth Iowa, Etc.

Madison R. Laird, youngest brother of Frank and Jacob M. Laird of this city, was eight months in a rebel prison from which he escaped. He died December 4,1866. John W. Dewey, Q. M. Sergeant, and Thomas J. Allaway, are also numbered among the dead of this Company; also J. F. Redman of Company K.

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Levi R. Hester, Sixteenth Iowa, died of wounds received at Iuka.

SOURCE:  Polk County (Iowa). Board of Supervisors, Centennial History of Polk County, Iowa, p. 121

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