Roster Of Field And Staff Officers - 15th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Hugh T. Reid, Colonel.

William Dewey, Lieutenant Colonel.

William W. Belknap, Major.

George Pomutz, Adjutant.

John M. Hedrick, Quartermaster.

William H. Burnham, Surgeon.

William H. Gibbon, Assistant Surgeon.

William W. Estabrook, Chaplain.

SOURCE:  Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Iowa to the Governor, for the Year Ending December 31, 1861, p. 21

William W. Cowley

William W. [sic] Cowley was the Fourth Commissary Sergeant and was promoted from Sergeant of Company C. The writer of this did not serve with the Regiment then, and cannot state further concerning Sergeant Cowley's history.

HENRY T. FELGAR, LUCIUS BOUDINOT, CORNELIUS INGLEFIELD and ALEXANDER Mc, 15tGILVERY were Hospital Stewards.

They must have been good ones, or Surgeon Gibbon would not have tolerated them for a moment. It is regretted that nothing of their history can be given beyond the fact that Felgar was from E Company, and died in Service. Boudinot was from Company B, and was discharged for disability. Inglefield was from Company K, and was mustered out March 27, 1865, and McGilvery was from Company G, and stayed until the end.

SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 47

William H. Gibbon

William H. Gibbon, who was the First Assistant Surgeon, and became Surgeon on the resignation of Doctor Davis. Surgeon Gibbon was a man of accomplished education, delightful manners, and courteous demeanor, faithful to duty and energetic on all occasions.

His success as a Surgeon and Physician showed that he was thoroughly "up" in the acquirements of his profession. Early and late, in field and fight, in camp or hospital, his genial manners made the sick feel better, and his complete knowledge of his work gave confidence and hope to the wounded and desponding soldier. He was mustered out on December 22, 1864, and no man ever left the Regiment more beloved and more regretted. The brevet which he received from the President as Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers, on March 13, 1865, was but a slight recognition of his services. But no title which could be given him could equal the reward which he had won.

His name is a cherished one in every home where lives a soldier of the l5th Iowa. He resides in Chariton, Iowa, where he practices his profession in honor and prosperity.

SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 43-4