Battery "D," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Cairo, Ill., and mustered in July 30, 1861. Ordered to Fort Holt, Ky., September 18, and duty there till February, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of West Tennessee, and 1st Division, Army Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. District of Jackson, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., to December, 1864. Garrison Artillery, Clarksville, Tenn. 5th Sub-District, District Middle Tennessee, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Operations against Fort Henry, Tenn., February 2-6, 1862. At Fort Henry February 6-12. Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-16. Moved to Savannanh, Tenn., March 5-13, thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 23-25. Battle at Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. March to Purdy and Jackson, Tenn., June 5-8, and duty in District of Jackson till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. At Memphis, Tenn., till February 20. Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 20-24, thence to Berry's Landing March 16, and to Milliken's Bend April 19. Advance on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1. Reserve, Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Occupation of Vicksburg July 4 to November 6. Stevenson's Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Duty at Big Black till February, 1864. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 3. Moved to Cairo, Ill., April 28, thence to Clifton, Tenn., April 30-May 5, March to Huntsville, Ala., May 5-23, thence to Ackworth, Ga., via Decatur and Warrenton, Ala., and Rome and Kingston, Ga., May 28-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June S-September 8. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till December. Battles of Nashville December 15-16. Ordered to Clarksville, Tenn., and duty there till July, 1865. Mustered out July 28, 1865.

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 28 Enlisted men by disease. Total 36.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1036

From St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 28.

Memphis papers of the 19th say Gen. Polk issued orders yesterday that the track of the Memphis and Ohio R. R. should be torn up and bridges destroyed, preparatory to the evacuation of Colum/cbus, and demolition of the fortifications.  The Columbus forces are to fall back to Island No. 10, about 45 miles below Columbus which, it is said, completely commands the river, and can be fortified with heavy guns, and made impregnable.

The Democrat’s Clarksville dispatch of the 26^th, says the rebel soldiers before leaving Nashville plundered many dwellings and business houses, and excited great alarm  among the people.  Several rebels were shot by citizens when robbing.

General Nelson is in command at Nashville, Gen. Buell still being on the north side of the river.

The Union sentiment is very strong, and our troops are received with the greatest cordiality.  Great indignation is expressed against Gov. Harris, who was fairly driven away by Union men, they having become bold at the proximity of Union troops, and dared to assert their rights.  Before leaving Harris made a speech, recommending the citizens to burn their private property, and calling on Tennesseeans to rally and meet him at Memphis, but none paid any attention to him, and it is thought he will not receive any considerable reinforcements.

Gen. Crittenden’s command had joined Johnston at Murfeyville.

The railroad bridge at Nashville was destroyed by Floyd, against the urgent request of the citizens, which caused much indignation.

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

Linus M. Taft

Private, Co. F, 24^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Battery "C," 1st Regiment Light Artillery ("Houghtailing's").

Organized at Ottawa, Ill., and mustered in October 31, 1861. Ordered to Cairo, Ill. Attached to Military District of Cairo to October, 1861. 3rd Brigade, District of Cairo, to February, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. Artillery Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. Artillery 1st Division, Army Mississippi, to September, 1862. Artillery, 13th Division, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty in the Military District of Cairo, Ill., till February, 1862. Operations against New Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, Mississippi River, February 28-April 8. Action and capture at Tiptonville April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 17-23. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Action at Farmington May 3. Reconnoissance toward Corinth May 8. Engagement at Farmington May 9. Occupation of Corinth May 30, and pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Reconnoissance toward Baldwyn June 3. At Corinth till July 21. Moved to Iuka, Miss., July 21, thence to Courtland, Ala., and duty along Memphis and Charleston R. R. till September 3. March to Nashville, Tenn., September 3-12. Action at Columbia September 9. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 7. Repulse of Forrest's attack on Edgefield November 5. Lavergne November 7. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign, June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga, Ga. Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Mission Ridge November 24-25. At Rossville, Ga., till May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station and Vining Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 1-26. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June. Mustered out June 14, 1865.

Battery lost during service 15 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 19 Enlisted men by disease. Total 34.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1036

George H. Kuhn

Corporal, Co. I, 15^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Battery "B," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Chicago, Ills., for three months' service and mustered into United States service May 2, 1861. Moved to Cairo, Ills., June 1. Duty at Cairo and Bird's Point, Mo., till July. Reorganized for three years' service at Cairo, Ills., July 16, 1861. Attached to Military District of Cairo, Ills., to October, 1861. 3rd Brigade, Military District of Cairo, to February, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, District of West Tennessee and Army of the Tennessee, to April, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Army Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. Artillery, District of Memphis, 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps, December, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1864.

SERVICE.--Duty at Cairo, Ills., and Bird's Point, Mo., till February, 1862. Operations about Ironton and Fredericktown, Mo., October 12-25, 1861. Engagement at Fredericktown October 21. Expedition to Belmont November 6-7. Battle of Belmont, Mo., November 7. Reconnoissance of Columbus, Ky., January 10-22, 1862. Operations against Fort Henry, Tenn., February 2-6. Capture of Fort Henry February 6. Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-16. Moved to Savannah, Tenn. Expedition to Yellow Creek and occupation of Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14-17. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Corinth Road April 8. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 26-May 30. Action at Russell House May 17. March to Memphis, Tenn., June 1-July 21. Duty at Memphis till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, "Tallahatchie March," November 25-December 14. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17, and duty there till March. Expedition to Rolling Fork, via Muddy, Steele's and Black Bayous and Deer Creek, March 14-27. Demonstrations on Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 2. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2-14. Battle of Jackson, May 14. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Richmond, La., June 15. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. At Big Black River till September 26. Movement to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 26-November 21. Operations on Memphis & Charleston R. R. in Alabama October 20-29. Bear Creek, Tuscumbia, October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 17. Duty at Larkinsville, Ala., till May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.). Campaign May 1 to July 12. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Battles about Dallas May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-12. Ordered to the rear for muster out July 12. Mustered out July 23, 1864, expiration of term. Veterans and Recruits transferred to Battery "A," 1st Light Artillery.

Battery lost during service 9 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 17 Enlisted men by disease. Total 27.

Battery reorganized March, 1865, by assignment of Bridges' Independent Battery Light Artillery. Attached to garrison artillery at Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. Mustered out July 6, 1865.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1035-6

Manly Fox

FOX, MANLY. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 27, 1864, at Lockport, to serve one year; mustered in as sergeant, Co. G, October 13, 1864; returned to ranks, no date; mustered out with company, July 1, 1865, at Arlington Heights, Va.; prior service, Co. F, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry.

SOURCE: New York Legislature, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York For The Year 1905, Vol. 6, p. 832, "Report of the Adjutant-General, One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Infantry."

Washington, Feb. 28 [1862]

The National Intelligencer, of this morning, says that a report prevailed yesterday to the effect that the column of Gen. Banks had suffered a repulse, in attempting to cross the Potomac, but its fallacy was exposed by a communication from Secretary Stanton to representative Colfax.

Special to Commercial.

The house committee of ways and means will not be able to introduce the tax bills before Monday next.  They hope to have them matured before that time.

The senate judiciary committee have the confiscation act of Senator Harris under consideration to-day.

First Assistant P. M. General Kasson is engaged in sending instructions and making arrangements for re-establishing post offices and post routs as our armies advance into the so-called Confederate States.  H. H. Markle is following our forces into Tennessee, and J. J. Miller, agent of the department in this connection, is operating in the southern part of Kentucky.  The post office at Nashville, and those in the eastern part of North Carolina, will soon be re-opened.  The latter State is to be supplied with mails by sea.

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

New York, February 28 [1862]

News in the morning papers is very meager.

The Herald’s dispatch, under date of Washington 27^th, says the navy department has a dispatch from Com. Goldsboro, conveying the information that the Union forces were in possession of the seaboard railroad and had destroyed the bridges across the Blackwater and Nottaway rivers cutting off all communication between Norfolk and Richmond and the Southern seaboard.

A bill has been prepared by the committee on territories and will be reported by their chairman, Mr. Ashley of Ohio, probably to-day, providing for temporary civil Government under the protection of our military and naval force in the States in rebellion.  The geographical boundaries of these territories are to be fixed by the President.

Applications have lately been made to the treasure department for permits to trade between the seceded and loyal States on the coast of the Atlantic and on the Mississippi, under the provisions of the law regulating intercourse with the seceded States.  A number of permits have accordingly been granted.

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

Edgar Thomson Miller

Member of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Second Lieutenant Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, April 7, 1862; First Lieutenant, July 4, 1862; Captain, Nov. 28, 1862; honorably mustered out, May 31, 1865; brevetted Major United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war; elected Feb. 1, 1888. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

SOURCE: Lewis R. Hamersly, Editor, Who's who in Pennsylvania, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 503

John Payne

JOHN PAYNE, County Auditor, Connersville, is a native of Ohio, born in Hamilton County, October 30, 1842. He was reared on a farm and received a common school education. His father, Thomas T. Payne, a miller by trade, was born in New York in 1801, and died in October, 1852. His mother, Ellen D. (Kees) Payne, was born May 9, 1807, in Virginia, and died in July, 1848. Mr. Payne was an apprentice to the printing business, and after completing his trade, July 24, 1861, he enlisted in Company B., Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, and served in the Seventeenth Army Corps, Crocker's Brigade. In 1864 he was Aide-de-camp on Gen. John P. Hawkins' staff. At the battle of Shiloh he was wounded in the shoulder. He remained in the service until January 41866, and after the war he was in the Quartermaster's Department at Vicksburg, until January 1, 1869, then returned to Indiana and farmed up to 1873, when he engaged in the tile business. He was elected Auditor in November, 1882. Mr. Payne was married in January, 1870, to Miss Eliza Ellis, who was born in this county and State, April 10, 1850. This union has been blessed by the following children: William, Edwin, Lucia, Charlie, Daisy, Edna and Pet. Mr. Payne is a member of Warren Lodge, No. 15, F. and A. M.; Maxwell Chapter, No. 18, R. A M.; Fayette Council, No. 6, R. and S. M., and Connersville Post, No. 126, G. A R. In politics he is an active and enthusiastic Republican; an affable and courteous gentleman.

SOURCE: History of Fayette County, Indiana, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, IL, 1885, p. 247

From Cairo

CAIRO, Feb. 26.

The casualties of the battle of Fort Donelson will run up much higher than was at first supposed, at least five hundred were killed outright and the wounded of both parties were picked up together, and have not yet been separated.  The rebels are cared for the same as our own men, and to get a correct list of our men will require some time.

Most of our sick and wounded have been sent to Paducah and Mound City; those remaining here will be transferred as soon as it is advisable to do so.  Col. John A Logan is quite feeble, but is not considered to be in a dangerous condition.  Col. Morrison is rapidly convalescing.  Capt. Hanna, of the 8^th Illinois died from the effects of his wounds at Fort Donelson.

Gen. Hurlbut is commandant of the post at Fort Donelson, and Gen. Lew Wallace at Fort Henry.

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

Southern News

FORT MONROE, Feb. 27.

A flag of truce to-day took over fifty people to Craney Island.

We have the following Southern news:

A meeting of the cotton and tobacco planters took place at Richmond on Wednesday evening, to take into consideration the voluntary destruction of the cotton and tobacco crops, in view of the fact that the efforts of the enemy were mainly directed towards robbing the South of the accumulation of these two great staples.  A number of speeches were made, and a committee was appointed to prepare business for an adjourned meeting this evening.

In Congress, on Wednesday, Senator Sims of Ky., offered some resolutions, declaring that the people of the Confederate states will to the last extremity maintain and defend their right to self government and the government established by them, and to this end will pledge their last man and last dollar for the prosecution of the war until their independence is acknowledged; and will submit to any sacrifice and endure any trial, however severe, and firmly relying on the justice of their cause and humbly trusting in the Providence of God, will maintain their position before the world and high heaven, while they have a voice to raise or  an arm to defend.  The resolutions were referred to the committee on military affairs.

A resolution was offered providing for compensation by the government, for cotton and tobacco burned to prevent their falling into the hands of the United States.

The Raleigh Register, of the 26^th inst., says that two men were brought to this city on Monday as prisoners, on a charge of having piloted the Yankees to Roanoke Island.  They were committed to jail.

The same paper in an editorial begins by saying that it would be criminal as well as idle to deny that the present state is the most gloomy period that the South has witnessed since the commencement of the war, and goes on in an earnest manner to call on the people to stand by their country, and fight to the last.

All the prisoners taken at Roanoke have been released on parole.  Quite a number of them arrived at Raleigh on Monday, and they state that one hundred and fifty were left at Weldon, to come on Tuesday.

Five regiments of volunteers for the war are wanted to fill up the quota of North Carolina, and Gov. Clark has issued a proclamation appealing to the patriotism of the citizens of the State to fill up these regiments.

The Norfolk Day Book of yesterday has the following telegraph:

RICHMOND, Feb. 26.

The Lynchburg Republican has a special dispatch from Bristol, Tenn., stating that the enemy occupied Nashville on Sunday.

The number of confederate prisoners taken at fort Donelson is about 7,000.  The number killed was 500, and wounded 1500.  The admitted loss of the Federals is from 6,000 to 10,000 killed and wounded.  Gen. Floyd has saved all his command, except the 20^th Mississippi regiment and the Grays and Jackson’s battery, which were taken.

RICHMOND, Feb. 27.

Schleiss’s new and extensive cotton and woolen factory was burnt on Tuesday night.  The loss is heavy.  The cotton factories at Columbus and Augusta have temporarily suspended, in consequence of material injury to their canals by the recent freshet.

AUGUSTA, Feb. 26.

The Savannah Republican, of this morning, says that the communications with Fort Pulaski has been effectually closed by the Federals who have erected three batteries of heavy guns.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 24.

Our latest advices from Nashville state that the federal troops have not yet occupied the city.

The scouts of Gen. Buell’s army have appeared at the north side of the Cumberland river and it is supposed their appearance is preparatory to an early advance of the main column.

Generals Price and McCullough [sic] are both preparing for battle.  The former is at the side of Fayetteville and the latter is at Boston Mountain with a force of cavalry.

It is reported that 9 federal gunboats were seen on Sunday at Mayfield and 15 transports.  No immediate action was expected.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 25.

Late advices from Knoxville, State that the Confederates at Cumberland Gap expect an early engagement.  The Federals are frequently in sight.

LYNCHBURG, Feb. 25.

A portion of the bridge which connected the island on which the south side depot is situated with the north Virginia and Tennessee R. R. depot, was destroyed yesterday, by coals falling from the locomotive.  Two spans were burnt, which will prevent the running of the south side cars into the city.

NEW YORK, Feb, 27.

The Post publishes extracts of a letter from Richmond, dated, over a month since, from a person still a resident of the South and with excellent opportunities of knowledge.  He says the rebel army on paper is 400,000, but in the field not quite 200,000, and part of them indifferently armed.  He says the rebel army on the whole line of the Potomac is only about 69,000, and thinks the Southern troops whose term of enlistment expires on the 1^st of May, will not reenlist if they can possibly avoid it.

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

Roger Buckley

Roger Buckley, b. 1838; enlisted in the army as Sergt. of Co. A.,Fifteenth Iowa Reg.; was picket officer (with rank of Capt.) on the staff of Brig.-Gen. G. A. Smith, commanding the Fourth Division of the Seventh Army Corps; was struck by a ball from a rebel sharpshooter, 13 Jan., 1865, and fell mortally wounded; was rem. to Beaufort and d. three days afterward.

SOURCE: Timothy Hopkins, The Kelloggs In The Old World And The New, Volume 2, p. 1783

Judge James G. Day

James G. Day was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 28, 1832, and was the son of George and Sarah Day. The family was of English descent and was founded in the early history of the country. In his youth he attended the Richmond academy, and afterward entered the Cincinnati law school, from which he was graduated in the class of 1857. He came soon after graduating to Iowa and settled at Afton, Union county. He opened a law office and conducted a successful business until the fall of 1861, when he joined Company F, Fifteenth Iowa infantry, and went to the front with the rank of lieutenant. He soon won the admiration of the men under his command, attracted the attention of his superior officers, and was promoted to the rank of captain. He took a prominent part in many of the battles of the war, and at the historic battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, he received a gunshot wound in the hip which compelled him to resign his commission the September following. While in active service at Corinth, Captain Day was nominated by the republicans for the office of district judge, to which he was elected upon his return from the front The eminent ability with which he discharged the duties of the position caused his re-nomination and re-election, and he continued on the district bench until 1870, when he resigned to accept appointment to the supreme court of the state to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge George G. Wright, chief justice, who had been elected to the United States senate. Judge Day was nominated for the position at a convention held previous to his appointment, and was elected in the fall of 1870, and by recurring elections continued to occupy the office until January 1, 1884. The fall previous he had been a candidate for the election, but was defeated because of a celebrated opinion rendered by him relating to the prohibition amendment, then recently adopted, to the state constitution. Without regard to personal or political sentiment, Judge Day declared as a lawyer that the amendment had not received legal ratification, but held it could be properly established, and that the delay necessary to accomplish the end in view was a less evil than the violation of the organic law. He was sustained in the position taken by the best legal talent of the state, but popular sentiment was hostile to the principles expressed in the opinion and he was defeated for re-nomination.

The opinion on the above subject written by Judge Day has attracted wide attention and is acknowledged to be a masterly document. It concludes with these strong words:

The cause of temperance can sustain no injury from the loss of this amendment, which would be at all comparable to the injury to republican institutions which a violation of the constitution would inflict. That large and respectable class of moral reformers which so justly demands the observance and the enforcement of law, cannot afford to take its first reformatory step by a violation of the constitution. How can it consistently demand of others obedience to a constitution which it violates itself? The people can, in a short time, re-enact the amendment. In the matter of a great moral reform, the loss of a few years is nothing. The constitution is the palladium of republican freedom. The young men coming forward upon the stage of political action must be educated to venerate it; those already upon the stage must be taught to obey it. Whatever interest may be advanced or may suffer, whoever or whatever may be "voted up or voted down," no sacrilegious hand must be laid on the constitution.

That Judge Day was actuated by the most conscientious motives, that he stood like a rock for his honest conviction at a time when such conviction meant disaster to himself, there were none to deny. The highest integrity, the keenest moral sense have always been accorded him, nor has his eminence as a jurist ever been questioned. In the quiet walks of private life. Judge Day was a man whom to know was to respect and admire. Though reserved and dignified in bearing, he was nevertheless cordial to friends and genial to all. He was the sort of man before whom there could be no wrong-doing. His memory will long be treasured and his name held in deepest reverence in this city which has been the home of the family since 1884.

Judge Day was thirteen years on the supreme bench of the state, and was thrice chief justice.

After leaving Afton Judge Day, some time in the latter '70's, located at Tabor in Fremont county. It was while at Tabor that Judge Day, becoming interested in a youth whom he first discovered herding sheep, found and developed Fred Lehman, whose fame as a scholar and able lawyer afterward became as wide as the boundaries of the state and who has been for four or five years engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis. Retiring from judicial calling, Judge Day removed to Des Moines and formed a partnership with Judge William Phillips. About one year ago the firm was dissolved by the retirement of Judge Phillips and a new firm organized under the name of Day & Corry.

He first met his wife, then Miss Minerva C. Manley, in Jefferson county, Ohio, in May 1856, at a May party, in which she appeared in the role of Queen of May. December 1, 1857, he led her to the altar.

Seven children, six sons and a daughter, graced the union of Judge Day and his wife, while an infant son, the youngest born rests in Greenwood. Curtis L., the first born, was graduated from the Iowa City college and Law school, and is now a leading attorney of Omaha; George, who was graduated from Tabor college and from the law department of the State University, married Miss Sarah Brown and is engaged in the practice as a partner with Curtis; Mary, who is the only daughter, is also a graduate of Tabor college and is the wife of Edmond B. Edgar, now a prominent attorney of Minneapolis; Charles M., also a graduate of Tabor college, is a young man of a high order of literary ability and editor of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader; Harry B., who was educated at the Ames Agricultural College, and who made a special study of electrical engineering, soon achieved success in his chosen field and is superintendent of the electric light plant at Hampton, Iowa; Edwin S. graduated from the Des Moines university and is practicing medicine at Earlham, Iowa, while James G. Jr., who also graduated from Des Moines university, is engaged in the practice of law, being a member of his father's firm.

The death of Judge James G. Day occurred Sunday afternoon, May 1st, 1898, between 1 and 2 o'clock, at his residence, 1305 Ninth street. Death was without warning of any kind, resulting from heart failure. He was talking to his son George a few minutes before his death and was apparently in good health. He was sitting in a chair and was leaning over to reach a book, when he gasped three or four times for breath and sank back in the chair dead. Restoratives were applied in vain He had gone to join his beloved wife, who had preceded him a few weeks.

SOURCE: Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa, Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa, Reunion of 1898, Held at Des Moines, February 9, 10 and 11, 1898, p. 174-6

From St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27.

General Halleck forwarded to General McClellan to-day the following cheering dispatch:

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,

ST. LOUIS, February 27th , 1862.

Maj. Gen. McCLELLAN, Washington:

Gen. Curtis has taken possession of Fayetteville, Ark., capturing a number of prisoners, stores, baggage, &c.  The enemy burnt a part of the town before they left.  They have crossed the Boston mountains in great confusion.  We are now in possession of all their strongholds.

Forty-two officers and men of the 5th Missouri Cavalry were poisoned at Mudtown, by eating poisoned food, which the rebels left behind them.  The gallant Capt. Dolfert died, and Leut. Col. Von Deutch and Capt. Lehman are suffering much, but are recovering.  The indignation of our soldiers is very great, but they have been restrained from retaliating upon the prisoners of war.

(Signed,)

H. W. HALLECK,

Major General

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

From Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.

The Republican intimates that there is truth in the story that Jeff. Davis has made overtures for a compromise.  It is said he asks for a convention of all the States to definitely adjust all questions at issue, and requires new guarantees for slavery.

Mrs. Lincoln is ill to-day.

Mr. Wilson, of Mass., will to-morrow introduce in the Senate a joint resolution to extend aid to Maryland and Delaware, in order that they may abolish slavery.

Mr. Cameron received his final instructions to-day as Minister to Russia.  Edward H. House has been appointed his Secretary of Legation.

Nearly 1000 returned Federal prisoners are now in Washington.  They are being rapidly paid off by the War Department.

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

Providence, R.I., Feb. 28 [1862]

The Constitutional Union Convention of Rhode Island assembled yesterday, and remominated Gov. Sprague and other State officers.

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

A. S. McPHERON

A. S. McPHERON, superintendent of San Bernardino county, was born in Knox county, Tenn., in 1843. His parents moved to Iowa in 1851, where a public school education was received; served in the 15th Iowa Infantry during the war; completed classical course at Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1871; principal of high and grammar school, Akron, O., till 1873; principal of normal department of Tabor College, Iowa, for seven years; four years principal Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, N. M.; three years in schools of Los Angeles; last fourteen years a resident of Redlands, Cal , most of the time being a teacher in the public schools; the last four years previous to assuming the duties of the office of county superintendent of schools being a teacher in the Redlands High School; appointed to the office of county superintendent September 1, 1901, and elected lo same office November 4, 1902.

SOURCE: Harr Wagner, Western Journal Of Education, Volume 8, March, 1903, p. 138

Michigan State Marker: Stones River National Battlefield

MICHIGAN REGISTERED
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MICHIGAN

THE

STATE OF MICHIGAN

HAS ERECTED

THIS MARKER

TO HER BRAVE AND

CORAGEOUS SONS

WHO FOUGHT AT

STONES RIVER TO

PRESERVE THE UNION

Erected by the Michigan Civil War Centennial

Observance Commission 1966

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION REGISTERED MARKER NO. 279

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This marker is dedicated to all the Michigan soldiers engaged in this great battle, to the 71 men how lost their lives and to the 6 regiments which fought bravely for their country:

21^st Michigan Infantry, commanded by Lt. Col. William B. McCreery (Fling), 18 killed, 89 wounded, 36 missing

11^th Michigan Infantry, commanded by Col. William L. Stoughton (Sturgis), 30 killed, 84 wounded, 25 missing

13^th Michigan Infantry, commanded by Col. Michael Shoemaker (Jackson), 17 killed, 72 wounded

4^th Michigan Cavalry, commanded by Col. Robert H. G. Minty (Detroit), 1 killed, 7 wounded, 12 missing

1^st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, commanded by Col. William P. Innes (Grand Rapids), 2 killed, 9 wounded, 5 missing

1^st Michigan Artillery Battery, Company A, commanded by Co. Cyrus O. Loomis (Coldwater), 1 killed, 10 wounded, 2 missing

Michigan men fought at Stones River for the preservation and perpetuity of the Union

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION REGISTERED MARKED NO. 279