from the 1883 History of Butler & Bremer County, Iowa

Diane Wilson of Downers Grove, IL, transcribed these records for Butler County researchers. If you want to know any other information available about a particular soldier, please email her.

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The following is a list of those gallant soldiers who left their homes, their wives and babies and took up the musket for the defense of their country's honor, never to return, finding graves in southern soil; who laid down their lives in defense of the Union. "It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country," should be engraved over the grave of each in characters that will perpetuate throughout all coming time and proclaim to the future generations their noble sacrifice:

Abrens, John, died at Macon, Georgia, September 25, 1862.
Allen, Sylvester E., died September 26, 1863, at Brownsville, Arkansas.

Blackman, Anson, died March 3, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee.
Braden, John (Lt.), died of wounds at Rolla, Missouri, October 31, 1864.
Burgess, Eli S., died March 7, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Bird, William O., died at Macon, Georgia, September 29, 1862.
Booram, John, died June 19, 1862, at Corinth, Mississippi.
Blass, John W., killed in battle, April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Burton, George H., killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Boon, Sylvester M., died January 3, 1863, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Boon, James H., died September 26, 1863, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Babcock, Joseph, died June 5, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Brooksland, Albert, died September 5, 1865, at Fort Smith.

Considine, Peter, died at Keokuk, December 5, 1862, of typhoid fever.
Champlain, William R., died May 21, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, of wounds.
Clawson, Phineas, died June 5, 1864, at Memphis, Tennessee.

DeWitt, Stephen, killed April 6, 1862, at Shiloh, Tennessee, in battle.
Dodge, Mordecai, died March 5, 1864, at Columbus, Kentucky.
Daniels, Alfred, died March 2, 1864, at Benton Barracks, Missouri.
DeMoss, James, died October 10, 1862, at Corinth, Mississippi, of wounds.
Davis, William W., killed July 14, 1863.
Dockstader, Leonard T., died August 24, 1865, at Little Rock, Arkansas.

Farlow, Uriah, died July 1, 1864, at Cedar Falls.
Ferris, Theodore H., died April 26, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Horsington, Hiram, died at Atlanta,Georgia, June 30, 1862.
Hopkins, Harvey W., died at Memphis, Tennessee, September 19, 1864.
Hogdson, Samuel, died May 17, 1865, at St. Louis, Missouri.
Halstead, William R., died July 8, 1864, at Memphis Tennessee.
Henderson, David M., died March 12, 1865, at Davenport.
Hites, Elijah, killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Hough, Nehemiah R., died June 4, 1864, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Hesse, Stephen, died February 9, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Inman, Cassius, died September 13, 1863, at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Johnson, Charles, died September 11, 1862, at Macon, Georgia, of starvation, prisoner of war.

Kelly, Marshall, died at New Madrid, December 21, 1862.
Kimmel, George W., died March 8, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Kimmel, Zacheus F., died April 5, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Leverich, Willard, killed March 7, 1862, at Pea Ridge.
Long, Wesley H., died April 27,1 864, at New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lewis, Wilbert L., killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, in battle.

Mason, George, died at St. Louis, January 25, 1862.
Martin, Henry, killed June 23, 1863, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Mix, Edward H. (Lt.) killed in battle April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Mix, Thomas M., killed September 17, 1861, at Blue Mills, Missouri.
Myers, Philip B., died of wounds received at Atlanta, Georgia, August 1, 1864.
Myers, John M., killed March 7, 1862, at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, in action.
McCain, John, died September 12, 1863, at Brownsville, Arkansas.
Miller, Francis M., died January 20, 1863, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Miller, Elias G., died December 12, 1863, at Benton, Arkansas.

Nuttling, Edmond, died at Memphis, June 29, 1864.

Olmstead, Robert L., died April 20, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, of wounds.

Parks, George, died of wounds received at Matamora, Tennessee, October 18, 1862.

Panley, Charles, died at Huntsville, Missouri, February 13, 1862.
Parriott, Jasper, killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Phillippi, Jehu, killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Pierce, Moses, died July 14, 1864, at Cairo, Illinois.

Sleffer, James M., died July 8, 1864, at Memphis, Tennessee.
Smith, Isaac A., died March 10, 1865, at Spirit Lake.
Smith, James, died July 24, 1863, at Columbus, Kentucky.
Spears, William, died of chronic diarrhea, November 10, 1864, at Sedalia, Missouri.
Sperry, James U., died February 8, 1864, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Stockdale, William, died March 4, 1864, at Mound City, Illinois.
Sturtz, Adam, died May 22, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Sturtz, Michael, died November 3, 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Sturdevant, Henry, died March 4, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Sturtz, Solomon, died June 6, 1864, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Surfus, Emanuel, died at Camp Franklin, November 6, 1862.
Swim, John B., killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.

Wamsly, Martin V., died June 26, 1864, at Tyler, Texas, while prisoner of war.
Waters, Julius A., killed April 9, 1864, at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
Wilson, Ezra S., died May 19, 1863, at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Winchell, Lyford, died at Shell Rock, Butler County, Iowa, November 13, 1863.
Witter, Benjamin Baltzer, died at Camp Ford, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, September 3, 1864.