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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Cass County, Iowa Continental Historical Co., Springfield, Ill: 1884 499-502 CHAPTER XVIII THE WAR FOR THE UNION ROLL OF HONOR The following embraces a list of the brave patriots from Cass county, who laid down their lives in defense of the Union. Words were feeble in the expression of the gratitude to these gallant, but un- fortunate comrades; weak in the expression of honor with which their names are held remembrance by those whom they died to benefit. May their names be handed down from generation to generation; may their children, and children's children, speak of them and recount their deeds with reverence, inspired by the remembrance and admiration of their noble sacrifice. May their sufferings, their death, and rude burial upon the hot and dusty battle fields of the South, all tend to strengthen the land they died for, and make patriotism's watchword, "Tis sweet and honorable to die for one's country." The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade' shall meet The brave but fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foes' advance Now sweeps upon the wind; No troubled thoughts at midnight haunt. Of loved ones left behind; No vision of the morrow's strife, The warrior's dream alarm; Nor neighing hords nor screaming fife. At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner trailed in dust. Is now their martial shroud; And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. Now, 'neath their parent turf they rest. Far from the gory field, Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here, And hundred eyes and hearts watch by The soldier's sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave! No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave, Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps, Or honor points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon faithful herald's blazoned stone With mournful pride shall tell, When many a vanquished age has flown, The story how ye fell! Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's flight Nor time's remorseless doom, Shall mar one ray of glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb. FRED. W. HUMERICK, died of typhoid fever, at Rolla, Missouri, December 11, 1861. DAVID WILSON, died of consumption, December 4, 1862. WILLIAM R. COLLETT, died November 3, 1862, at St. Louis, Missouri, of pneumonia. JAPHETH BALL, died at Little Rock, Arkansas, July 20, 1864, of chronic diarrhoea. Captain J. C. BROWN, killed in action, at Milliken's Bend, June 7, 1863. Lieutenant G. B. KIRKPATRICK, died November 16, 1864. JASPER BERRY, died at Rolla, Missouri. GEORGE ROSE, killed at battle of Pea Ridge, Missouri, March 10, 1862. DAVID WILSON, died 1862. PATRICK ARCHER, killed at siege of Vicksburg. EBENEZER CUMMINGS, died June 4, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee, of typhoid fever. DAVID DUCKETT, died July 25, 1863, at Milliken's Bend, of diarrhoea. ISAIAH DUCKETT, died July 15, 1863, at Milliken's Bend, of diarrhoea. GEORGE W. HARDY, died October 19, 1862, at the Arcadia hospital, of measles. LYMAN J. JARDINE, died June 27, 1865, at Columbus, Texas, of chronic diarrhoea. JOSHUA M. KEAR, died July 6, 1863, at Milliken's Bend, of typhoid fever. M. L. LITTLEFIELD, died August 4, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee, of wounds received in battle. JOHN A. MAHEW, died of dysentery, at Milliken's Bend, July 20, 1863. DANIEL W. PORTER, died at St. Louis, Missouri, of typhoid fever, April 15, 1863. HUDSON REYNOLDS, died July 31, 1863, of typhoid fever, at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. WILLIAM R. TERRY, died July 6, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee, of wounds. SAMUEL WILSON, died July 13, 1863, at Milliken's Bend, of intermittent fever. ROSTER OF VETERANS. Besides those who have been mentioned as having enlisted from Cass county during the great civil war, there are now resident within the county, many who wore the army blue, who, at that time resided in other localities and enlisted there, but came to Cass, since, and are now citizens of the county. Endeavor has been made to include all of these brave patriots but it has been impossible. The following list, however, is partially complete, and their names are enrolled that when a few short years have rolled by, that they may not be entirely forgotten: H. M. BROWN, 176th Ohio inf'y. G. JILLICH, 166th and 197th Ohio inf'y. F. W. MONTGOMERY 11th Illinois cavl'y. J. GREEN, 9th Iowa infantry. WATSON TREGO, 102d Illinois infantry. ENOS SAYERS, 26th Ohio infantry. A. J. GILLESPIE, 1st Iowa cavalry. S. J. ROE, 39th Illinois infantry. EDWIN PERRY, 2d Iowa cavalry. L. L. DUNHAM, 6th Iowa infantry. JACOB TREGO, 101st Illinois infantry. C. W. MOUNTAIN, 8th Iowa infantry. D. P. ROBERTS, 28th Iowa infantry. G. A. HEBING, 23d Iowa infantry. W. L. WUISLER, 23d Iowa infantry. J. W. GRAHAM, 31st Iowa infantry. W. B. EDWARDS, 3d Illinois cavalry. JOHN MCKNIGHT. Capt. J. O. H. SPINNEY, 9th Illinois cav. W. F. McKEE, 3d Maryland infantry. HENRY MOORE, 9th Iowa infantry. P. W. PIGSLEY, 33d Illinois infantry. HUGH KIMPSON, 17th Iowa infantry. G. L. EDWARDS, 2d Iowa. JOHN LESLIE, 23d Iowa infantry. JOHN ARCHER, 44th Iowa infantry. C. W. DUTCHER, 9th Kansas. M. M. WHITE, 60th Ohio infantry. R. A. SHEARER, 11th Pennsylvania inf'y L. S. OLSEN, 64th Illinois infantry. HENRY CHAPIN, 42d Ohio infantry. WILLIAM SMITHER, 4th Iowa cavalry. E. D. ALLEN, 35th Iowa infantry. O. H. WHITCOMB, 52d Illinois infantry. J. R. JOHNSON, 2d New Jersey. MICHAEL TABASINSKI, 104th Illinois inf'y. ABRAHAM BRIGGS, 102d Ohio infantry. JONATHAN GATES, 13th U. S. regulars. J. H. VINSON, 53d Illinois infantry. R. K. OKELL, 4th Iowa cavalry. J. W. CALLAWAY, 112th New York inf'y. G. H. HOSFELT, 12th Illinois. L. STONE, 15th Massachusetts. Capt. C. W. HUFF, 19th Iowa infantry. WILLIAM PORTER, 70th Indiana infantry. ELIAS WILLIS, 151st Illinois infantry. HIRAM BLAKE, 12th Illinois. WILLIAM KREAMER, 26th Illinois inf'y. LEANDER PRALL, 7th and 33d Indiana. S. H. TUCKER, 40th Indiana. GOTTLIEB HOLDORFF, 105th Illinois. C. A. HULLY, 30th Iowa. GEORGE YOUNGBLOOD, 22d Michigan. L. MONNTAIN, 6th Pennsylvania artillery. S. R. S. HORTON, 147th New York inf'y. J. PRINGEY, 14th West Virginia inf'y. LEWIS PRAY, 35th Iowa. C. E. MYERS, 106th New York. J. E. STOCKING, 138th Ohio. H. C. SAUNDERS, 106th Pennsylvania. A. KOOB, 5th Iowa. JOHN G. GIBSON, 31st Iowa. ADOLPH HEWITT, 23d Illinois. MERRITT HEWITT, 28th Iowa. M. HOTCHKIN, 24th and 114th New York. JAMES DUNN, 28th Michigan. ===========================================================================