Sick Iowa Soldiers

The steamer D. A. January arrived at St. Louis, from the Upper Tennessee, last Wednesday.  She brought a large number of sick and wounded soldiers to Jefferson Barracks Hospital.  The flowing Iowa names appear among them:

James Taylor, Co. C, 2d Cavalry; Wm. H. Reckord, and James Flanagan, Co. I, 8th Infantry.  These are from Scott county.

John L. Brush and Wm. F. Bullock, Co. B, 2d cavalry; James Slaughter, Co. D, do; L. J. Parks, Wm. H. Bulla, Samuel Craig, C. E. Biggs and James Faught, Co. F, do; J. T. Haight, Anderson Hersley and E. H. Evans, Co G., do.; Derwin Downer, Co. K, do.

Charles W. Adell, Co. D. 3d infantry; Luther B. Converse, C. M. Townsend; George Eberhart and C. H. Talmage, Co. I, do.

Daniel E. Follitt, Co. H, 8th Infantry; Moses Conklin, Wm. Lewis, and Henry Applegate Co., I, do.

Martin Poling, James F. Little, M. P. Myers, and Wm. H. Cooper, Co. B, 13th Infantry; Sam. F. Hill, Co. E, do.

Calvin Loid, Co. B, 15th; Wm. Phrekla, Co. C, do.

James Casley, Co. B. 17th; Benj. Stephenson, Co. I, do.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 1

Mortality of Iowa Soldiers

The following list comprises the names of Iowa Volunteers who have died in the vicinity of St. Louis at the dates named. – For further information, apply to John A. Smithers, 113 Chesnut street, St. Louis.

April	30	–	Lewis Stah,	Co. K,	16th	regt.
May	3	–	Wm. H. Johnson,	Co. K,	17th	“
May	4	–	Theo. Campbell,	Co. F,	11th	“
“	“	–	Chas. White,	Co. K,	17th	“
“	6	–	Robt. A. Bennett,	Co. D,	2d	“
“	“	–	Ben. J. Baker,	Co. K,	14th	“
“	7	–	G. W. Hess,	Co. F,	6th	“
“	“	–	Gottleib Weltlaff,	Co. K,	16th	“
“	“	–	Wm. T. Clark,	recruit for	4th	“
“	8	–	John Keppel,	Co. A,	2d	“
“	“	–	E. A. Ward,	Co. H,	12th	“
“	9	–	Jos. B. Caraway,	Co. B,	12th	“
“	“	–	Geo. B. Ferguson,	Co. D,	5th	“
“	10	–	Thos. Sharpe,	Co. I,	4th	“

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 15, 1862, p. 2

The following list of Iowa soldiers have died in the hospitals in St. Louis and vicinity:

Geo. W. Thompkins, co. C, 10th.

G. W. Wooley, co. I, 17th.

Lieut. Joseph Farber, co. D, 3d.

S. Griffin, co. K, 12th.

H. Clayton, co. F, 12th.

Calvin Lloyd, co. B, 15th.

Enock Kent, co. I, 15th.

James G. Davis, co. G, 6th.

S. Utterback, F, 15th.

James Smith, co. C, 10th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2

Weekly Report of the Mortality among Iowa Soldiers in Hospitals and Camps in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo., for the week ending March 8.

March 2 – Hiram Cronk, Co. F, 12th Infantry.

March 2 – George Penfield, Co. K, 12th Infantry.

March 2 – Charles F. Beck, Co. C, 2d Iowa Infantry.

March 2 – G. W. Lay, Co. F, 14th Infantry

March 4 – Chapin Duncan, Co. D, 2d Cavalry

March 7 – Jos. Jackson, Co. I, 14th Infantry

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 2

Rooms Of The West’n Sanitary Com’n

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27, 1862.

Application having been made to the Western Sanitary Commission, by “Secessionist Ladies” for permission to contribute articles exclusively for the sick and wounded prisoners now in the hospitals here, they take this opportunity to inform them that, by order of Gen. Halleck, no discrimination can be made in the treatment of patients – friend and foe being treated alike.

Liberal hearted loyal people have generously contributed goods and money for the comfort of the unfortunate men in our hospitals.  These donations are used indiscriminately for all the inmates of the hospitals who need them.

The commission will gladly receive any donations contributed for the sick and wounded, but they cannot discriminate in favor of any.

By order of the Western Sanitary Commission.

LYMAN B. RIFLEY, Secretary.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3

Weekly Report of the Morality . . .

. . . among Iowa Soldiers in the Hospitals and Camps in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo.

Feb. 19, Andrew Vananfrink, Co. G, 3d Inf.

Feb. 23, James M. Potter, Co. E, 1st Cav.

Feb. 24, Alonzo Conaway, Co. I, 2nd Cav.

Feb. 25, Wm. Piersall, Co. H, 2nd Cav.

Feb. 27, Richard B. Truby, Co. K, 5th Inf.

Feb. 27, Samuel Shinnemann, Co. D, 12th Inf.

Feb. 27, Alphonzo Clark, Co. F, 12th Inf.

Feb. 28, Washington Bickford, Co. F, 3d Cav.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2

Prisoners At The Hospitals

Two hundred and fifty sick of the prisoners of war recently taken at Fort Donelson, are now in the large military hospital, at the corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets.  They occupy the two upper wards, which are the best in the building, and receive the kindest treatment, faring in every possible respect as well as the Union soldiers, and as well as the inmates of the best ordered hospitals in the United States.  The sick prisoners generally, have been received in a very exhausted condition, and require and receive a great deal of careful attention from the hospital physicians and nurses and members of the Sanitary Commission.  Most of them are free in expressions of gratitude for the kind treatment extended them.  Yesterday afternoon the sick from the steamer White Cloud were sent up to the Hospital.  The Union soldiers who led them ashore to the ambulance conducted themselves towards their captives with more than humanity.  It was a tenderness that was extremely touching.  The tones of the brave fellows, speaking sympathy and encouragement, were of the gentlest, and their touch as delicate as brother would extend to brother.  Some of the captives bore death marks in their hollow eyes and shriveled faces but looked a gratitude more fervent than they could have expressed in words.  Even JEFF. DAVIS, and the most heartless of his secession knaves, would have been moved to something like remorse at the sight. –{St. Louis Republican.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 1, 1862, p. 2

The last weekly report of deaths . . .

. . . in the hospitals at St. Louis and vicinity only contains the following names of Iowa troops: Wm E. Nelson, company F, 12^th Iowa, and A. M. Clarke, Second Iowa Cavalry.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 1, 1862, p. 2

Weekly report of the mortality among . . .

. . . the Iowa soldiers in the Military Hospitals and Camps in the vicinity of St. Louis, Mo.

May 17 – Neil Morris, co. F, 15th.

May 18 – Moses W. Wadsworth, co. I, 6th.

May 19 – Benjamin Hinckle, co. C, 15th.

May 20 – Joseph Curtiss, co. E, 2d Cavalry.

May 23 – Barney Pells, co. G, 16th.

May 23 –Jacob Frederick, co. C, 18th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 2

Deaths At St. Louis Hospital

Only three deaths of Iowa soldiers occurred at the St. Louis hospital last week, viz:

Philip Zimelman, 16^th regiment.

Peter Kobrick, Co. G, 5^th regiment.

Henry B. Starwell, Co., I, 16^th regiment.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1862, p. 2

Deaths of Iowa Soldiers

During last week there were but three deaths of Iowa soldiers in the St. Louis Hospital, viz: Solomon J. Clark, Co. E, 5^th regiment; Morrow Steward [sic], 6^th regiment; and H. B. Linton, 14^th regiment.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 28, 1862, p. 1

Deaths of Iowa Soldiers at St. Louis Hospital

March 2. – Hiram Cronk, Co. F 12^th regt.

March 2. – Geo. Penfield, Co. K 12^th regt.

March 2. – Ch. F. Beck, Co. C 2d regt.

March 2. – G. W. Lay, Co. F 14^th regt.

March 4. – C. Duncan, Co. D 2d Cavalry

March 7. – Jos. Jackson, Co. I 14^th regt.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 14, 1862, p. 2 

Mortality of Iowa Soldiers

The following list comprises the names of Iowa volunteers who have died in the vicinity of St. Louis at the dates named.  For further information, apply to John A. Smithers, 113 Chesnut street, St. Louis:

Feb. 19 – Andrew Vananfrink, Company G, 3d Infantry.

Feb. 27 – Richard B. Truby, Co. K, 5^th Infantry.

Feb. 28 – Samuel Shinneman, Company D, 12^th Infantry.

Feb. 27 – Alphonso Clark, Company F, 12^th Infantry.

Feb. 23 – James M. Potter, Company E, 1^st Cavalry.

Feb. 24 – Alonzo Conaway, Company I, 2d Cavalry.

Feb. 25 – William Piersall, Company H, 2d Cavalry.

Feb. 28 – Washington Bickford, Company F, 3d Cavalry.

Feb. 28 – William J. Fairchild, Company D, 3d Cavalry.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 2

An Irish Patriot

The North Iowa Times publishes an obituary notice of John Lyon, a private in Co. C, 3d regiment Infantry who died at the St. Louis Military Hospital, and says:

He was at the battle of Blue Mills Landing, and behaved himself like a true soldier.  He leaves a wife and three children at McGregor.  It will be remembered that he did not enlist till the morning of the departure of the company, and while the steamer Canada was lying at our wharf ready to carry “the boys” to Keokuk, the writer of this tribute to his memory met him on that morning in soldier’s clothes and inquired  where he was going.  The reply was, “I am going to fight for my adopted country.” “But,” said I, “John, why didn’t you enlist a month ago, like most of your comrades, and not surprise your friends in this way?”  “Because, sir,” said the noble-hearted soldier, “I am too proud to let Relief Committees take care of my wife and children, while I have stout arms to labor for them.  I intended from the first to enlist, but I chose to provide for my little home, rather than to tramp up and down the streets and idle away that time, while they and myself would be dependent upon the liberality of the who public.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

From The Iowa 2d Regiment

STEAMER S. L. McGILL, bound for Dixie, February 12.

EDITOR GAZETTE. – On the 10th the 2d Iowa left St. Louis in a manner not in accordance with our usual custom.  General Hamilton saw fit to issue an order to disgrace the regiment, for acts that it had no cognizance of until they were read as we were ready to march through the city.  If the acts of vandalism were committed by members of the regiment, they kept it a secret from their comrades.

Last September, while on the march from Ironton to Cape Girardeau, a soldier, while intoxicated, took possession of a horse.  He was drummed out and an example made of him before the regiment.  That case is similar to the present, except that now the innocent must suffer with the guilty.

The regiment cannot but feel the injustice done them and the Iowa troops in general.  Citizens never have complained of our behavior while we have been stationed among them.  We have some men in the regiment that are not as they should be.  What regiment has not?  What city, town, or school district has not men that reflect discredit upon the community?  Never have we shown better discipline than we did by the quiet, orderly manner in which we submitted to an order that all felt to be so unjust.  All marched with a soldierly bearing, feeling conscious that they held their fame in their own hands, and that it was not in the power of any General to make or unmake their reputation.

We will be in Paducah to-morrow morning, but will continue our journey to Dixie’s land with as little delay as possible.  We hope you will hear from us in the field of action in a few days; but we have been disappointed so often that we have but little faith that we will meet with an opportunity of trying our steel with the enemy.

We are in good fighting condition at present, and feel able to give a good account of ourselves.  We know we must fight to win laurels, after the fierce encounters of the 1st and Springfield and the 7th at Belmont.  We left all the sick at the St. Louis general hospital, where they will be taken care of.

DISCIPLINE,

2nd Iowa Regt.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

Deaths of Iowa Troops at St. Louis

The mortality of our troops at the St. Louis general hospital weekly decreases owing in part to increases healthfulness, but mainly to the few troops now stationed there.  The following are all the deaths there for the week ending with the 15th inst.

Feb. 8. – Albra Miller, Company M, 3d Cavalry.

Feb. 10. – Alfred Fleming, Company F, 14th regiment.

Feb. 13. – Charles Walker, Company K, 12th regiment.

Feb. 13. – Hy. McWilliams, Company B, 13th regiment.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

At. St. Louis

The following sick Iowa soldiers arrived at St. Louis, Sunday last on the Imperial.

J O Donnel, 3d

S Berkhalter, 15th

Ab Wade, 15th

R Alexander, 15th

S B Smith, 12th

S R French, 17th

A J Flemming, 15th

L S Griffith, 3d

N Morin, 15th

L. Tarpening, do

D Boone, do

H C Smith, 12th

W Morrow, 15th

J Coulter, 2d cav

M Brown, 15th

D Miles, 16th

J H Easley, 10th

J McCord, do

W Redmond, 15th

A Norris, 4th

J Baid, 2d cav

C H Bullis, 3d

J Andrews, 12th

J Torrencraw, 2 cav

N J Webster, do

J H House, do

N P Cross, 5th

H Dobbins, 12th

J Turner, 10th

W P Cross, 5th

C H Brock, 2d cav

E Smallwood, 15th

A Adams, 10th

B F Brown, 11th

Capt R Haskel, 2d cav

Tom Harding, 2d bat

G W Tompkins, 10th

C Benstram, 16th

J Wright, 10th

Amos S Collins, 16th

D Gibson, 11th

W T Lockwood, 8th

S M Rusk, 16th

W Reed, 11th

B Pell, 16th

G W Lilcott, 3d

C H McDoll, 8th

J O’lear, 3d cav

The steamer Empress arrived at St. Louis Saturday, loaded with sick, among them the following Iowa soldiers.

B Anderson, 16th

A Schaffer, do

A R Lathrop, 15th

C Jellison, 6th

J J Davis, do

D Frankceber, do

J W Johnson, 6th

M C Cunningham, do

G W Keith, do

D P Wells, do

J Robinson, do

J [Rush], 15th

D Minett, 11th

L W Whitling, do

A J Allen, 6th

R Bates, do

W Bremner, 2d cav

D Hughes, do

D Deligen, do

J J Ward, do

C Utseler, 11th

C Turner, 16th

J Wood, 2d cav

C F Brown, do

G Kaff, do

A Corlin, 5th

D Downs, do

R P Gilbroth, 11th

A Post, do

L M Longstaff, 3d

F M Zonk, do

J Lushbow, 17th

W Moore, 2d

E Kent, 15th

B Hinckle, do

E Starr, 10th

D Myers, do

F M Applegate, 5th

O L Ward, 10th

G Suaw, 11th

S Snyder, do

J McGuire, 5th

J Galesby, do

J Orr, 10th

J Bell, do

A Stanfield, 3d

B Mathews, 6th

J Laughlin, do

W H Riffenbarry, 16

G P Wooley, do

J W Rollman, 10th

F Saunders, do

C R Woodward do

J Warling, do

J L Beck, 15th

R Buten, 5th

G T Hughs, 15th

A Broadstone, do

N Beatman, do

M Elliott, do

J W Dewey, 16th

F Hall, 2d cav

J fisher, 10th

J Sewder, do

C W Newton, 15th

S C Hawkins, do

W B Crawford, 11th

S Bakton, 10th

J Myers, do

J W Sawyer, 5th

S Smith, 10th

J Stackhouse, 3d

O F Sodge, 11th

G W Rexford, 7th

S Utterback, 15th

Wm Miller, 11th

J D Hensler, 10th

E J Hicks, do

J H Manlove, 11th

A M Conkling, 5th

E Merril, do

T B Diely, do

J Moore, do

R Spans, 10th

O Wilcox, 11th

C E Turner, 3d

J Miller, 11th

W Sparks, 3d

L Moore, 17th

J McAllister, 2d cav

W P Manlove, 11th

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Deaths of Iowa Soldiers

In the Military Hospitals and camps in St. Louis and vicinity, for the week ending May 17:

May 10 – C Brummell, co. B, 12^th.

May 10 – John Mack, co. C, 3d.

May 11 – T. M. Pasely, co. H, 17^th.

May 12 – Isaac Hanewell, co. C, 7^th.

May 12 – J. H. Wills, co. E, 6^th.

May 14 – J. F. Reynolds, co. D, 6^th.

May 15 – H. Young, co. F, 17^th.

May 15 – N. H. Haldeman, co. C, 2d.

May 16 – Aborn Griffin, co. F, 12^th.

May 16 – J. S. Brush, 2d Cavalry.

May 16 – W. C. Cunningham, co. D, 6^th.

May 17 – H. D. Reasener, co. C, 4^th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

ST. LOUIS, May 3, 1862

Editor Hawk Eye, - For the benefit and information of those who have sick and wounded relatives in the St. Louis hospitals from our State, I wish to say that Judge Thos W J Long, of Camanche, is at present in St. Louis generously devoting his whole time towards getting pay rolls for the soldiers, helping them off home as fast as they are able to be moved, and doing everything in his power to alleviate their sufferings, without any charge or remuneration whatever. He has already done a great deal for our Iowa wounded there, and expects to remain just as long as he can be of service to them. As one of the most honorable and influential citizens of Clinton county, and well known in the State, our people can rely upon his assistance and counsel in looking after their wounded friends in the hospitals.

Mr. W. A. Saunders, of Mt. Pleasant, has also been staying in St. Louis for some time, devoting his attention in the same direction, and has accomplished a great deal of good. Our state should keep a good man there all the time to attend to these matters, and not leave it to be done by one or two citizens at their own expense.

Yours truly,
T. H. STANTON

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