Fallen Soldiers of Polk Co.

FIRST BATTERY.

This was commanded by Captain H. H. Griffiths, of Des Moines.  The names of the dead are: Lieutenant Selah M. Titus, William Seldon, George Howard, Wm. H. Callender, Wm. McMichael, Harmon T. Myerhoff, John Johnson, Jon D. Callender, and Robert F. Reeder.

SECOND BATTERY, ETC.

The names of the dead are:  Romulus Bullotph, John Jones, John Kuntz, and Peter H. Lee; of the Eighty-Ninth Illinois Volunteers, James Nicholas; of the Twenty-First Missouri, Geo. R. Spencer; of the Second Nebraska, Wm. A. McClain; of the Ninety-Seventh Ohio, Lieutenant Geo. F. Jack, drowned in Raccoon river, with Asher Holcomb, April 19th, 1867; of First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Benjamin M. Orwig; of the Ninety-Seventh Ohio, George Corwin Goodrell.

Source: Centennial History of Polk County, Iowa by J. M. Dixon, Blind Editor, printed 1876, pg. 125. Names placed in bold to increase readability.



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