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Biographical History of Shelby and Audubon Counties
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Audubon County, at the breaking out of the great civil war, had but a small population, amounting to less than 500. Her quota of men, called for by the government, was twenty-two; about one-half this number volunteered, white the balance remained to be made up by draft. It should not be understood that this constituted the total number of Audubon County men who served in the Rebellion, for quite a number went to Des Moines, Council Bluffs, and various other localities, and entered the army, hence by that act were not credited to this county, as shown by the Adjutant General's reports. There is no greater -- almost impossible -- task for a local historian to undertake than to give the complete roster of the soldiery which went from any given county, from the reason above named, as well as from the fact that official reports are anything buy fully complete in all their details. From the best information which can be obtained from the soldiers themselves and other early citizens, the following are about the facts concerning the county's war record -- at least all of those given served in the Rebellion, from this county, and if there were others whose names should appear, their omission is not intended, but because no data could be found regarding additional names. If there are any such they must have been among the list of men who were drafted, or who went from other locations, and in order to take advantage of a bounty were credited to other than their own home county. The subjoined served under the several heads of either volunteers, were ddrafted and furnished a substitute, or served as drafted men themselves: Volunteers: Captain Charles Van Gorder, Company B, Thirty-ninth Infantry. Richard S. Hallock, United States Colored Infantry. Robert Oliphant, Company B, Fourth Infantry. Orland Jones, Second Iowa Battery, killed. John T. Jenkins, Second Battery. Silas D. Burns, Second Battery. Charles H. Norton, Second Battery. John W. Davis, Company L, Fourth Calvary. William Anderson, Company B, Fifth Iowa Infantry, killed. John Anderson, Seventh Iowa Calvary. D. L. Anderson, Company D, Seventh Iowa Cavalry. W. F. E. Smith, Fourth Cavalry. Lyman Jordan, Fourth Infantry, died. Hiram Simmons, Fourth Infantry. Washington Hardy, Fourth Infantry, died. John W. Montgomery, Company E, Third Infantry. Frank Smith, Seventh Cavalry. James Jones, Second Iowa Battery. William M. Nelson, Company D, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry. James Robison, Company D, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry. James S. Smith, Fourth Infantry. James F. Smith,Company I, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry. Drafted: John Crane, James Poage, Richard Eault (these three sent substitutes), Henry Eagan, James Eagan, James Howlett, Samuel Howlett, Nathaniel Wiggins. |
| Prev. <=== Continue Reading ===> Next Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass September, 2014 from "Biographical History of Shelby and Audubon Counties", Chicago: W. S. Dunbar & Co., 1889, pp. 663. |
