Company C.
Was born February 25th, 1838, in Decatur county, Indiana. At the age of three years his parents moved to the then far west, the southeastern part of Iowa. Here he lived until the date of his enlistment as a recruit, in August, 1862, in the First Iowa Cavalry, Company C, serving one year. He then re-enlisted as a veteran, and served until the close of the war. When he first left home to fight for the stripes and stars he was engaged as a farmer in Lee county, Iowa. Leaving behind a wife and one year old baby girl, he and his only brother William went to help fill up the regiment. At the close of the war he was mustered out as color bearer of his company. He escaped the prison pens of the South, the balls of the Johnnies, but, like all other soldiers who went nobly to the front, he gave his youth and health for his country. On his return home he emigrated to Bates county, Missouri, where he resided sixteen years. He then visited his mother, (his father having died during the war.) in Iowa, on his way to South Dakota, in 1881, where he now resides with his family, in Hyde county. He is the father of five children, one son and four daughters, of whom two died in infancy. Although an old man in looks, with very poor health, he loves to meet the old veterans and talk over old times and tell war stories as well as ever.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 333
Was born February 25th, 1838, in Decatur county, Indiana. At the age of three years his parents moved to the then far west, the southeastern part of Iowa. Here he lived until the date of his enlistment as a recruit, in August, 1862, in the First Iowa Cavalry, Company C, serving one year. He then re-enlisted as a veteran, and served until the close of the war. When he first left home to fight for the stripes and stars he was engaged as a farmer in Lee county, Iowa. Leaving behind a wife and one year old baby girl, he and his only brother William went to help fill up the regiment. At the close of the war he was mustered out as color bearer of his company. He escaped the prison pens of the South, the balls of the Johnnies, but, like all other soldiers who went nobly to the front, he gave his youth and health for his country. On his return home he emigrated to Bates county, Missouri, where he resided sixteen years. He then visited his mother, (his father having died during the war.) in Iowa, on his way to South Dakota, in 1881, where he now resides with his family, in Hyde county. He is the father of five children, one son and four daughters, of whom two died in infancy. Although an old man in looks, with very poor health, he loves to meet the old veterans and talk over old times and tell war stories as well as ever.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 333
