John Whitten

JOHN WHITTEN was born at Business Corner, Van Buren county, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1842; he died at Farmington, Iowa, Sept. 7,1902. He remained at home with his parents until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in company H, 15th Iowa Infantry. Not long after his muster into the service he was detailed as one of the color guard. He succeeded the color bearer who was shot down at the battle of Missionary Ridge, where his whole regiment was captured. With his comrades he was marched to Andersonville prison, where he suffered untold tortures from starvation, vermin, scurvy, and filth. After his liberation he was discharged, having been in the army four years and seven months. He served his county two terms as auditor, and was deputy state treasurer of Iowa for three terms, also holding many other positions of honor and trust, in all of which be proved himself competent and thoroughly trustworthy. His funeral took place at Farmington, Iowa, Sept. 8. His remains were borne to the cemetery by the members of the G. A. R., who buried him with the honors of the order.

SOURCE: Annals Of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 5 No. 7, October 1902, p. 558-9

Major Edwin Carlton Blackmar

MAJOR EDWIN CARLTON BLACKMAR was born September 7,1835, at North Woodstock, Connecticut; he died at Burlington, Iowa, October 7, 1900. Soon after his birth his parents removed to Washington county, Ohio, where he lived until 1853, when he came to Iowa. After leaving school he entered a machine shop and later became a steamboat engineer, plying his trade on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. In November, 1852, he nearly lost his life in a steamboat explosion, only recovering after months of suffering. Upon regaining his health, he came with his father to Iowa and settled in Glenwood. For some time he was employed under the United States Indian agent at Bellevue, Nebraska. In the fall of 1861 he recruited a company of volunteers for service in the Union army and was commissioned captain of Co. F, 15th Iowa Infantry. At the battle of Shiloh he was disabled by the bursting of a shell and resigning from the service returned to Iowa. As soon as his health and strength permitted, he re entered the service as adjutant of the 31st Iowa Infantry, serving until the surrender of Vicksburg, when again the condition of his health compelled him to resign. In 1864 he settled in Des Moines and became interested in the printing and publishing of blank books. This venture determined his future career. In 1867 he removed to Burlington, becoming a partner in the firm established by Mr. S. F. Acres. The firm was known as Acres, Blackmar & Co., a business house famous throughout Iowa. Mr. Blackmar's early experience in county offices in the western part of the State, and his experience as a practical printer in Des Moines, gave him valuable knowledge of forms and blank records required in our counties, and enabled him to advance rapidly the reputation of his firm in the matter of manufacturing and furnishing blank books. In 1879 the partnership was dissolved and the business was reorganized as a corporation, Mr. Blackmar becoming the secretary of the company. Later, on the death of Mr. Acres in 1890, he became president, which office be held until his death. For a few years he lived in St. Louis but retained his connection with the Burlington business. Major Blackmar was prominent in the Masonic order, holding a number of responsible positions, among them being that of Grand Master from 1887 to 1889. He was also a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Burlington and a prominent member of the Matthies Post No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic.

SOURCE: Annals Of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 5 No. 1, April 1901, p. 75

Hutchins' Independent Cavalry Company

Organized with 27th Illinois Infantry August 10, 1861. Moved to Cairo, Ills., July 1. Duty in Military District of Cairo till March, 1862. Duty at Fort Holt, Ky. Expedition into Kentucky January 16-21, 1862. Occupation of Columbus March 3. Operations against New Madrid and Island No. 10 March and April. Expedition to Union City, Tenn., March 30-April 2. Moved to Humboldt, Tenn., thence to Corinth, Miss. Assigned to Stewart's Independent Battalion Illinois Cavalry as Company "E," July, 1862, which see.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1033

From North Carolina

A Healthy Reaction.

NEWBERN, N.C., May 14, 1862.

The climate here this far has been delightful – neither too warm nor too cold.  Fewer deaths by sickness have occurred since our troops have been in this State than before we came.  Our troops have been here since January last, and, on the whole, have suffered less by sickness than the troops in Virginia.  If the remainder of the year should prove as healthy, and doubtless it will, then we shall have no fault to find with the climate of the Old North State.

The Western part of this State is considered the paradise of America.  When the Yankees shall have discovered this beautiful section of the country, you may expect to see it soon peopled by a different class of inhabitants, whose industry and ingenuity will make the State what it should be – one of the wealthiest and most prosperous in the Union.

The authorities at Richmond, who have been in the habit of dragging the citizens of this and other Southern States before their star chamber in the most summary manner, and executing them without trial, for entertaining Union sentiments, have been very unexpectedly snubbed in these unwarrantable proceedings by the Governor of North Carolina, backed up by the State Convention.  It appears that Jeff. Davis ordered the arrest of Mr. Respess, the Mayor of Washington, N. C., charged with having an interview with Gen Burnside soon after Newbern was taken.  The Mayor was arrested in the night time, in the most summary manner, and hurried off to Richmond in irons, where he was thrust into a dungeon, and not allowed to see any of his friends or receive any food or clothing from them.

This outrage created the most intense excitement throughout the State.  Gov. Clark was instructed by the Convention, now in session in Raleigh, to make a peremptory demand on the authorities at Richmond in the name of the State for the immediate delivery of the person of Mayor Respess, which demand was refused by President Davis.  Then a Committee was appointed by the Convention to wait on Davis & Co. and inform them that the demand made by the Governor must be immediately complied with otherwise the State of North Carolina would resort to forcible measures if necessary.

Mr. Respess was on trial before Davis when Gov. Clark first made the demand for his release.  Davis answered that the trial must go on, and not until the Committee made the demand in person was Mr. Respess released.  This Committee was also instructed to inform Jeff. Davis that North Carolina considered herself capable of inquiring into the conduct of her own citizens, and that the Richmond authorities must make no more arrest in this state.  Mr. Respess was brought to Raleigh by the Committee, where he was set at liberty, and will soon join his family and friends.

This movement on the part of Gov. Clark and the State Convention is rather ominous, to say the least – especially so when it is understood that North Carolina has withdrawn all of her aid, from Davis, and refused to meet a renewed demand from the Rebel President for more troops and additional transportation facilities.  The State has positively refused to allow any of her troops to accompany the retreating rebels into the Cotton States.  Her railroads, however, are placed at the disposal of the traitors to enable them to return to their respective States.

We hear of Union meetings in different parts of the State.  The old flag is floating defiantly in the western counties, where they are having great Union gatherings almost within sight of the State Capital.  Last Saturday two great Union meetings came off in this part of the State – one in Craven County, the other in Carteret.  Strong Union resolutions were passed. Charles Henry Foster was indorsed as the representative of the Union sentiment by these meetings, and also much satisfaction was expressed over the appointment of Mr. Stanley by President Lincoln as Military Governor.  This gentleman is a native of this county, and has represented this district in Congress several terms.  He is greatly respected by the people of this State, and his return from California to his old home will be hailed with delight by his numerous old friends.  Gov. Stanly will doubtless proceed to Raleigh as soon as he arrives, and confer with Governor Clark and the Convention, who no doubt will accept him as a medium through whom they will act in arriving at an understanding with the Federal Government prior to resuming their old position in the Union as one of the original States. –{Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

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

Contrasts & etc.

Contrasts --- Gen. McClellan --- Somebody Blundered at Williamsburg – Our Advance – Military Jealousies – The Commander, The President, and the Secretary of War – Battle of York River – Obstruction of the Pamunkey – Maps.

CAMP AT ELTHAM, NEW KENT CO., VA,

SUNDAY, May 11^th, 1862.

Last Sunday the army was convulsed with excitement. Thousands of armed men were plunging onward in pursuit of a flying enemy.  Away off in the distance there was a sound of angry tumult, arising from the swamps and forests.  To-day, how serene and placid the scene!  Beautiful fields arrayed in living green, a calm, blue May sky, fragrant breezes from the Sunny South cooling the heated atmosphere, and the voice of praise and of prayer rising from the midst of embattled hosts.  But all this is the calm which presages the dreadful storm. * * *  The word comes that Gen. McClellan is coming into camp, and there is a grand rush to see him.

GEN. M’CLELLAN HERE.

The General paid this army a flying visit, halting temporarily at Gen. Sedgwick’s headquarters.  The troops greeted him with the heartiest enthusiasm.  I believe I commit no impropriety in stating that I am satisfied that the great battle is almost at hand.  It may take place before this is printed.  The enemy have evacuated every point connecting with Richmond, for the purpose of giving battle on the Chickahominy.  Their central point is at Bottom Bridge and the Chickahominy, on the perimeter of a semicircle formed by the meandering of the stream.  They are supposed to be protected from blank attacks by the creeks and deep swamps.  General McClellan did not express an opinion respecting the numbers of the enemy, but remarked “they are on the Chickahominy in force.”  The lowest estimate of their numbers, by careful commanders, is one hundred and twenty five thousand, but there are sound reasons for placing the number at one hundred and fifty thousand – of whom, perhaps, fifty thousand are new conscripts.  Our videttes are already in close juxtaposition with their outposts.

Yesterday afternoon two of our gunboats ascended the Pamunkey to White House, some seventeen miles above this camp, and about seven above and to the right of New Kent Court House, at the point, I am informed, where the Richmond and York River Railway crosses the Pamunkey.

OUR ADVANCE.

Gen. Stoneman also advanced to that point last night, meeting and driving before him a considerable force of rebels, killing five, wounding a number, and taking some prisoners, two of his men being killed and three wounded. – Our troops have gone forward to-day, and the whole army is disposed within supporting distance of the front.  This general fact would be presupposed.  I state it to calm any apprehensive inquiry that might be made.  I may say, likewise, that the General seems cheerful and confident, and since the battle of Williamsburg, he relies upon his volunteers to obey orders and emulate their leaders.

CABALS.

In infer from certain mysterious expressions among military men, that somebody blundered at Williamsburg, but the utterances are so cabalistic that I doubt the propriety of venturing an opinion.  Decision of character and consistency of purpose seem to have been the deficiencies of which compliant is made.  I am not competent to decide whether such insinuations are justifiable or whether they are the utterances of military cabals.  I sometimes fear that Old West Point and Young West Point do not agree.  As Young West Point has done so well, generally, in this war, my predictions are rather favorable to them.  Yet, I would rather not know so much about military collisions among our own officers.  While I dwell upon this point the reader will pardon me for submitting that the Secretary of War does not appear to be sustaining Gen. McClellan as he ought, otherwise he would not send exhausted or incompetent Brigadiers to the Commander, when he deserves a more vigorous and better qualified class of officers.  Just here, I would also remark that the special friends of Gen. McClellan are striving to widen the breach between the Secretary of War and himself, by representing that it was the former who subdivided the army into corps, for the purpose of crippling the latter.  Now, I think that my authority for saying that this was President Lincoln’s work is indisputable.  You will have observed, probably, that the N. Y. Herald is prone to couple the President and General McClellan as fides achate, and to mention the latter and the War Secretary as bitterly antagonistic.  Here are wheels within wheels.  I shall not be accused of an attempt to widen any breach or of puffing anybody who does not merit praise, but I shall be as just as I can to all concerned, no matter who is hurt.

BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG.

I do not know whether the casualty list at Williamsburg will be published or not, but I know that our loss was about 2,500.  The rebel loss was greater.  They captured some of our pieces, and we recaptured all but four of them, and some of theirs, leaving a handsome balance in our favor.  This bloody victory ought to satisfy the public that the evacuation of Yorktown was a fortunate event for us, and that the rebels are not irretrievably demoralized.  The truth is not always agreeable but in the long run it is the best principle.

THE BATTLE OF YORK RIVER.

There are further developments about the affair of Wednesday last.  It appears that Gen. Gustavus Smith was in command of the rebels and that Gen. Whiting led his own brigade. – Gen. Joe Johnston was also on the field and had a powerful force in reserve.  We were not fast enough to accomplish all we desired and intended, and our troops made a lucky escape.  Had the rebels pushed us, they might have destroyed an entire division.  The risk was too great, however, and they could not know how far to venture.  Readers who have followed my sketch of the siege of Yorktown will have observed that it has cost our army at least 3,000 brave men to clear the peninsula.  It has cost the rebels more, if that is any satisfaction, besides stores and a hundred pieces of artillery, large and small.

OBSTRUCTION OF THE PAMUNKEY.

Officers of the gunboats report that thirty five schooners were sunk in Pamunkey by the rebels to obstruct the transit of our flotilla, but they proved inefficient, our boats passing them as easily as if no obstructions had been planted.  If James river is blockaded in a similar manner the city of Richmond may be approached in a similar manner, the city of Richmond may be approached by boats drawing eight feet of water.

MAPS.

The popular war maps, including Lloyd’s railway map, mislead all who refer to them for geographical information.  In the latter the Richmond and York River Railroad is laid south of the Pamunkey, running through the town of New Kent Court House.  The road really runs north of the river from West Point to White House, seven miles beyond Kent C. H., where it crosses the river.  The turnpike runs almost due west from West Point to Richmond, but whether the army will march on that line is a question which I cannot determine.   W. D. B.

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

Second Iowa Cavalry

General Pope’s Division were compelled to withdraw from their advanced position at Farmington, On Friday the 9^th inst.  The following account of the action of our 2d Cavalry in the affair is given by the correspondent of the World:

At 11 the Second Iowa Cavalry were ordered to the front, to be ready for emergencies.  They reached the ground about 12, and were instantly formed in the rear of our lines of infantry, where they remained, subject to a screaming ball at short intervals.  The brigade of Gen. Palmer, with a supporting brigade of Ohio regiments, formed on the brow of a hill stretching across a cleared place half a mile across.  The artillery on both sides was pouring out a storm of flame and sulphur.  The confederates seemed to have in the clearing at Farmington a dense column of infantry, and on the left a battery of four pieces; in the center section, and on the right our ten pieces were mounted nearly opposite the road, as it emerges from the swamp at about two thousand yards distance.  The exchange of shots was rapid and well sustained from 11 till 12.

WE GIVE GROUND.

It soon became evident from the movements of the enemy that they intended to get between our position and the only road out by a flank movement on our right and left.  After a lapse of an hour and a half their batteries opened again at an [angle] so as to deliver a cross fire.  Their cavalry had disappeared.  Ours was ranged in along the edge of the woods. – Gen. Paine, who was in command of the whole, wisely deemed it best to withdraw from the ground.  To do this without leaving anything on the field was a nice task.  It was 2 o’clock and the enemy was spreading his lines out through the inclosing woods.  The artillery of the enemy was raking our collected force with shot and shell.  Our wounded were being carried off in teams and ambulances as they fell.  Further resistance without support was useless.

THE HEROIC CAVALRY CHARGE.

In this extremity Gen. Paine, excited at the time, gave the order for the batteries to fall back to the road and the infantry to follow. – To cover this retreat, and stop this hail of hurtling balls and shell the cavalry was called upon.  The regiment of Second Iowa Cavalry under command of Col. Hatch, and majors Love and Kuhen, and three small companies of regulars, under Lt. Gordon, were ordered to charge upon the batteries!  The order was a rash one, but it was an order.  Five hundred, in all, to charge a battery in the face of ten thousand!  But they did it, and thanks to the bad gunnery of the rebels, they nearly all returned to tell the tale; many of them alas, speaking by gasping wounds and riddled tattered garments.

THE BRAVE IOWA CAVALRY.

Lieut. Gordon, who is himself a conspicuous character in more than one charge of cavalry, says the sight transcended all belief.  The brave Iowans who had but recently left their plows a-field, now called upon to face death and ride to the cannon’s mouth, with the true spirit of heroes filed up the ravine; and on reaching the top of the hill spread out, galloped up to the batteries demolishing like lightning a line of skirmishers in their way,

“Cannon to the right of them,

Cannon to the left of them,

Volleyed and thundered.”

Truly enough for the whole of the guns were sweeping the plain with shrapnel and canister.  Luckily the depression was too great.  The balls whistled and flew into the ground all around and beneath them.  The mortality among the horses was fearful – ninety-three of the number being wounded and killed.  Col. Hatch’s anxiety for his men to follow him had now changed into anxiety to recall them.  Onward they charged, right up to the batteries, slashing and hewing down the gunners with their sabers, dead to the call of their gallant leader, who saw that the object was accomplished, the guns limbered and silenced, and the enemy on the right in disorder, while on the left wing he was closing in.

THEY COVER THE RETREAT.

Orderlies sent to the different companies finally rallied the men.  Slowly and deliberately they road back over the field.  The enemy was silent on the left.  Our artillery and infantry had passed into the woods and were falling back to the main body.  The route was strewed with dead horses.  The wounded were helped on to the horses of their comrades while the unhorsed took to the woods on the left – Gordon, who more prudently, but with equal coolness remained in the rear, saw the desperate charge and cared for the sufferers, burying two on the field with sabers while still under fire.  Taken altogether this is one of the most magnificent feats of the war.  No cavalry charge since that of the memorable Light Brigade is comparable with it.  In these days when cavalry is beginning to be looked on with some distrust, it is creditable to see one regiment which will not flinch in its duty even at the risk of certain death.

INCIDENTS.

Lieutenant-Colonel Miles, of the [Forty-eighth] Illinois Regiment, had his leg shot off by a cannon-ball on the field.  His limb has since been amputated, and at last accounts he was sinking rapidly from loss of blood.  Colonel Hatch had a ball through his hat and his [stirrup broken] by the force of a shell which killed the horse on his right.  The end and some of the whole matter is, then that they occupy Farmington to-night instead of we ourselves.

Gen. Paine, Capt. Keserck, of the Missouri battery, and Gen. Palmer, who witnessed the charge, are loud in their praises of the officers and men.

LOSSES.

The Second Iowa is the principal sufferer in the fight, taking the brunt of the fight and nearly all the glory.  The regulars had three killed and some ten or twelve wounded.  The losses of the infantry cannot be arrived at with accuracy as I write.

REPORT OF COL. HATCH.

CAMP NEAR FARMIGNTON, May 10.

Lieut. Marden, A. A. G. Brigade:

I had the honor to report, complying with orders to report, with Second Regiment to Gen. Granger.  Did so, receiving instructions from Gen. Pope to report to general commanding the advance.  I reported at 12 o’clock to Gen. Palmer, who ordered me to throw out two companies to the left of Farmington road, and hold the balance of command in reserve.  Our infantry, who held the field above us being driven in to the brow of the hill.  Gen. Paine ordered the regiment to charge the enemy’s batteries.  Moving the column to the top of the hill, ordered Major Kuhen, with companies H, G, & C, of the Second Battalion, and Major Love, with the Third Battalion, to charge the batteries on our right, Major Hepburn those on our left, in echelon of squadrons, deploying the columns to the right and left.  When we passed the infantry columns we attacked their skirmishers and supports, driving them in, killing and wounding some.  No effect was produced on the battery on our left.  Near the main Farmington road the battery and supports were protected by a rail fence.  Major Kuhen gallantly attacked the battery near the building known as the cotton mill, Company F, Lieut. Riley, alone attacking two guns in battery on our extreme right.  The center battery was fairly carried, the enemy limbering up his guns without taking them off the field.

Finding our horses badly blown for a long charge over rough ground, a distance of twelve hundred yards, and the infantry in great force, ordered all companies on the right to retreat to the right and rear, forming on the swamp road, and those on the left to then join their command.  The conduct of men and officers was in every respect commendatory. – Capts. Lundy, Egbert, Lieuts. Owen, Horton, Seutger, all had horses killed under them. – There were about four hundred men in the charges.  Our loss will scarcely exceed fifty killed and wounded; fifty horses, as many wounded and unserviceable.

EDWARD HATCH,

Lieut. Col. Com’d’g Second Iowa Cavalry

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

Compiled Service Record of John A. DeLong, Pvt., Co F, 90th Ohio Infantry

Appears in the Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above.  Description.  Age 25 years; height 5 feet 6 inches.  Complexion: light.  Eyes: blue. Hair: dark.  Born in Perry Co., Ohio.  Occupation: farmer.  Enlistment.  Enlisted Aug. 4, 1862 at New Holland, Ohio by T. J. Watkins for a term of 3 years.  Honorably mustered out of service June 13 [1865].

Appears on Company Muster-in Roll of the organization named above.  Roll dated Aug 26, 1862, Camp Circleville, Ohio.  Muster-in to date Aug. 26, 1862.  Joined for duty and enrolled Aug. 4, 1862 at Williamsport, Ohio for a period of 3 years.  Age 25 years.

Appears on Company Muster Rolls for:

Aug 26 to Oct. 31, 1862.  Present.

Nov. & Dec., 1862.  Present

Feb. 28, 1863.  Present.

Apr. 10, 1863.  Present  [Special Muster Roll]

Mar. & Apr., 1863.  Present

Feb. 28 to June 30, 1863.  Present.  John A. Delong in "present column."

July & Aug., 1863.  Present.

Sept. & Oct., 1863.  Present

Nov. & Dec., 1863.  Present.

Jan. & Feb., 1864.  Present.

March & April, 1864.  Present.

May & June, 1864.  Present.

July & Aug., 1864.  Present

Sept. & Oct., 1864.  Present

Nov. & Dec., 1864.  Present.

Jan. & Feb., 1865.  Present.

Apr. 30, 1865.  Present.

Appears on Co. Muster-Out Roll.  June 13, 1865.  Muster-out to date June 13, 1865.  Last paid to Aug. 31, 1864.  Clothing account last settled on Oct. 31, 1863.  Am't for cloth'g in kind or money adv'd $51.29.  Bounty paid: $25.00; due: $75.00.  Age. 25 years.

Report of Wounded of the 2nd Division 14th Corps, dated Jan. 6, 1863.  Report of Gen'l Rosecrans. Page 402. J. Delong, Private, Company F, 90th Ohio Infantry.  Wounded in neck slightly.  Date of casualty, from Dec. 30, 1862 to Jan. 3, 1863.  [Casualty sheet.]

Report of Killed, Wounded and Missing of the 90th Ohio Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, Left Wing, 14th Corps. in the battle before Murfreesboro. as far as reported by the Regt'l Surgeon up to this day, Jany. 6/63, detached from report signed by T. L. Crittenden Maj. Genl. Comdg Dept.  No. 2 Ind. Co. pg. 15.  J. Delong, Pvt. Company F, 90th Ohio Infantry.  Wounded - neck, slightly.  [Casualty sheet.]

SOURCE:  National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

The Reason Why

It is said the reason why our boys in the 16^th regiment have never received any pay is that Col. Chambers refused to sign the pay roll.  The reason why he refuses to do this is that some one, while the regiment was at Benton Barracks, shaved the mane and tail of his favorite horse.  We have heard of extremely unpopular officers being shot by their own men in the course of an engagement.  There was a time while the First Regiment was camped at Keokuk that this same man, Chambers, dared not show his face in camp Ellsworth for fear of the boys whom he cheated out of half of their rations.  A mob, which intended to leave camp in the night and tar and feather this same chap, was only suppressed by the most vigorous measures on the part of the officers. – {Muscatine Journal.

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

Quite Right

We are informed that Mr. Artemus Ward has positively declined to exhibit his Children in the Wood at Barnum’s approaching Polyphlosboyandgiropanopticus, or Baby Show. – {Vanity Fair.

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

Northern Sympathisers With Traitors

Parson Brownlow says:

If I owed the devil a debt and it was to be discharged by the rendering up to him of a dozen of the meanest, most revolting and god forsaken wretches that ever could be culled from the ranks of depraved human society, and I wanted to pay that debt and get a premium on the payment, I would make a tender to his Satanic Majesty of twelve Northern men who sympathized with this infernal rebellion. – {Great cheering.}  If I am severe and bitter in my remarks. {Cries of “no, no; not a bit of it.”}  If I am, gentlemen, you must consider that we in the South make a personal matter of this thing {laughter.}  We have no respect or confidence in any Northern man who sympathises [sic] with this infernal rebellion – {Cries of good, good,} – nor should any be tolerated in walking Broadway at any time.  Such men ought to be ridden upon a rail and ridden out of the North.  {Good, good.}  They should either be for or against the “mill dam,” and I would make them show their hands.

Parson Brownlow said in his recent New York speech:

The soldiers brought with them from the battle of Manassas, the heads of Union men that were killed, and held them by the beards and waved them, and showed them as the heads of the d----d Yankees they had captured.  This is the Secession spirit of the South.  The spirit of the vile untutored savage.  The spirit of hell and yet you have men at the North who sympathise with these murderers.

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

Compiled Service Record of Walter E. Partridge, Pvt., Co. F, 36th Illinois Infantry

Appears on Company Muster Rolls for:

Sep 23, 1861.  Camp Hammond, Aurora Ill.  Age 27.  Muster-in to date Sep 23, 1861.  Joined for duty and enrolled Sep 9, 1861 at Aurora, Ill. for 3 years.

Sept. 23 to Oct. 31, 1861.  Present.

Nov. & Dec., 1861.  Present.

Jany. & Feb., 1862.  Present.

Mch. & Apr., 1862.  Present.

May & June, 1862.  Absent.  Was wounded in the battle of Pea Ridge.

July & Aug., 1862.  Present.

Sept. & Oct, 1862.  Present.

Nov. & Dec., 1862.  Present.

Jan. & Feb., 1863.  Present.

Mch. & Apr. 1863.  Present.

April 10, 1863.  Present.  [Special Muster Roll.]

May & June, 1863.  Present.

July & Aug., 1863.  Present.

Sept. & Oct., 1863.  Absent.  Wounded in Battle of Chickamauga Ga. Sept. 20/63.  Now at Hospital Nashville Tenn.

Nov. & Dec., 1863.  Present.

Appears on a Detachment Muster-out Roll of the organization named above.  Age 27.  Roll dated Chattanooga Tenn Jany 25, 1864.  Muster-out to date Dec 31, 1863.  Clothing account: last settled Aug 31, 1862; am't for cloth'g in kind or money adv'd $19.04.  Bounty due $100.00.  Dischgd by virtue of reenlistment as a Vet Vol under the provisions of Genl orders No 191. [sent] 1863 from the War Dept.

Appears on Muster and Descriptive Roll of Veteran Volunteers of the organization named above.  Roll dated Chattanooga Tenn Jan 25, 1864.  Born Sparsholt, Eng.  Age 29.  Occupation: farmer. Enlisted Jan 1, 1864 at Blane's Cross Roads Tenn for 3 years.  Gray eyes; dark hair; light complexion; height 5 ft 7 1/2 in.  Mustered in Jan 25, 1864, Chattanooga Tenn.  Muster-in to date Jan 1, 1864.  Bounty paid $ 25 / 35; due $340.00.  Residence Adams La Salle Co. Ill.

Jan. & Feb. 1864.  Not Stated.  Joined a Vet. Vol. Rec'd 1 months advance pay $13 & $60 bounty second installment of bounty $50 due.  Recapitulation shows him absent with leave.

Mar. & Apr., 1864.  Present.  Joined a Vet. Vol. Rec'd 1 month's advance pay $13, & $60 bounty.  Second installment of bounty due $50 and $2 premium.

May & June, 1864.  Present.

July & Aug., 1864.  Present.  Veteran.

Sept. & Oct., 1864.  Present.  Veteran

Nov. & Dec., 1864.  Absent.  Detailed as Provost guard at Division Hd. Qrs.  Veteran.

Jan. & Feb., 1865.  Absent.  Detailed as provost guard at Hd. Qrs. Div.  Veteran.

Mar. & Apr., 1865.  Absent.  Detailed as Provost Guard at Div. Hd. Qrs.  Veteran.

May & June, 1865.  Absent.  Detailed as Provost Guard at Div. Hd. Qrs.

July & Aug., 1865.  Absent.  On detached service as guard with Pay Master.  5th install' Bounty due.

Appears on Co. Muster-out Roll, dated N. Orleans La. Oct. 8, 1865.  Age 31 years.  Muster-out to date Oct. 8, 1865.  Clothing account: Due soldier $27.51.  Due U. S. for arms equipments, &c. $6.  Bounty paid $210; due $190.  Joined a Private at O. O.  Reenlisted a V. V. Jan. 1/64.  Slightly wounded at Bat. of Pea Ridge Ark. Mar. 8/62.  Stoppages for Springfield Rifled Musket & accoutrements retained by virtue of G. O. 101 C. S. W. D. A. G. O.

SOURCE: National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

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

List Of Dead

We copy the following from the Register kept on the Steamer City of Memphis, which left Pittsburg Landing last week:

Peter Smith, Co. B, 7^th Iowa, buried at Quincy, 17^th May.

Uriah Egbert, Co F, 15^th Iowa, buried at Landing 12^th May.

Levi Dailer, Co. H. 15^th Iowa, buried at Paducah.

Samuel Farley, Co. F, 13^th Iowa, buried at Quincy.

Sylvester Knouse, Co. D, 11^th Iowa buried at Paducah.

Fred. K. Dean, Co. G, 13^th Iowa, buried at Quincy.

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