WILLIAM S. EVERETT.

William S. Everett, an Ohio man and married, although not yet of age, came to Pymosa township in May, 1857, in company with his brother, John. In January, 1862, they purchased eighty acres of land, which was afterward included in his homestead of 120 acres. On July 23, 1862, William S. Everett enlisted in Company I, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was at Fort Gibson, where his regiment opened the engagement, May 1, 1863. On the 16th of the same month he was at the battle of Champion Hill, and at Black River Bridge, where the Twenty-third again led the charge. In the latter engagement he was severely wounded. Mr. Everett campaigned in Texas during the fall of 1863, and participated in a portion of the Red River operations in the following spring. In the spring of 1865, he took part in the thirteen-days' siege of Spanish Fort; was in hospital during the siege of Vicksburg; at the time of Lee's surrender was in Alabama, but immediately afterward was ordered to Texas. After the war he went to Ohio and remained until the spring of 1870, when he returned to Cass county and settled on his farm. He never fully recovered from the hardships of his army experience.


From "Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pp. 116-117.