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

Thomas J. Allaway

Accredited to Des Moines in the reports of the Adjutant-General of Iowa, though I find none of his relatives; age, eighteen ; native of Illinois; private; enlisted Feb. 28, 1862; died July 7, 1862, at Vicksburg, Miss., of disease.

SOURCE: Leonard Brown, American Patriotism: Or, Memoirs Of "Commen Men", p. 236