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Book Title: History Of Riverside County California

CHAPTER XVI.
RIVERSIDE'S MILITARY HISTORY 
By E. W. Holmes

   Although Riverside was settled some five years after the close of the Civil
war, and therefore contributed no organization of her own to the great army that
fought for the preservation of the Union, so many of those who became residents
of the city bore an honorable part in that conflict as to make it proper to
place their names on record here. So many of the old soldiers came to make
Riverside their home, that it is said that for years probably ten per cent of
her voters were veterans. No complete list of these is available, but from a
history of the local Post, prepared by Capt. Harvey Potter, we gather the
following:

   RIVERSIDE POST No. 118, G. A. R.—This Post was organized May 1, 1886, with
thirty-one charter members, who were: Christopher C. Miller, James H. Roe,
George M. Skinner, Elmer W. Holmes, Samuel B. Hinckley, Cary J. Gill, Otis T.
Dyer, Charles T. Rice, Henry W. Robinson, John Aberdeen, Adair S. Alkire, J. P.
Mitchell, David Frost, Francis Coolidge, William Carr, John O. Cottrell, Nelson
Rustin, Lycurgus Grice, John K. Woodward, John E. Cutter, Winfield S. Wilson,
Charles L. Cady, W. G. Wall, Edwin Hart, Frank Petchner, Joseph M. Edmiston,
Albert H. Sprague, Veranus S. Runnels, Marcus M. Davis, Robert Johnston and
David Frost.

   The following is a list of the Post commanders: Cary J. Gill, 1886; Marcus M.
Davis, 1887; Hiram C. Hibbard, 1888; Christopher C. Miller, 1889; Charles T.
Rice, 1890-91; Charles H. Vosburg, 1892; Francis Coolidge, 1893; William W.
Campbell, 1894; Gaylor Rouse, 1895; Oliver Burrell, 1896; Charles M. Dexter,
1897-98; David G. Mitchell, 1899-1900; Harvey Potter, 1901; William B. Johnson,
1902; Jacob J. Yeakle, 1903; Charles Leech, 1904; Arlington C. Lewis, 1905;
Andrew S. Milice, 1906; Dwight B. Mason, 1907; Homer A. Plimpton, 1908; George
D. Jones, 1909; Elmer W. Holmes, 1910; Robert Henderson, 1911; Jeffrey O. Cutts,
1912; Edwin H. Gamble, 1913.

   The following have been commanders in other Posts, and later became members
of Riverside Post by transfer: Peter W. Stocks-ledger, Albert Laughridge, Henry
S. Clark, Jonathan W. McKenney, John S. Strong, Madison Noland, Henry R.
Vandebogart, David N. Alexander, Augustus Hulsiger, Oscar Pixley, Lyman Gregory,
David Herrod, George N. Mason, Hiram I. Gruwell, William M. Pilgrim, John A.
Willard, Mortimer P. Main.

   Charles T. Rice was commander of the Department of California and Nevada for
one term; Harvey Potter, judge advocate for two terms, and D. G. Mitchell served
as commander of the Southern California Veteran Association. Many Union
veterans, not members of the Grand Army, have lived and died in Riverside, but
no accurate list of these is available. One of the first to be buried in
Evergreen Cemetery was Henry O. Stanley, the first secretary of the Land and
Irrigation Company, who was during the war an aid of General Howard.

   Riverside has also had among her most loyal and respected citizens a number
of Confederate veterans, several of whom have been so prominently identified
with her progress as to entitle them to special mention in this record. J. T.
Lawler, who was a captain through the war under General Forrest, was for years a
valued member of our city council, and served conspicuously and well as a church
official. James M. Drake, an Alabamian soldier, was for years our city
treasurer, and a man universally loved for his sterling qualities. George
Miller, badly maimed in one of the terrible Virginia battles and a long-time
prisoner, and S. W. Culpepper, were both in Louisiana regiments, and were among
the pioneers who shared the hardships of the colony days. James H. Blue of
Mississippi was on the staff of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnstone and was with him at
his death at Shiloh. And Elijah Hawkins, who of those here mentioned alone
survives, has won the hearts of his Union comrades by the personal qualities
which belong to a soldier and gentleman. Sincerity, tested on many a bloody
battlefield, has melted the prejudices of the past and fused the men of that era
into the truest of .Americans.

   COMPANY M, 7TH REGIMENT, N. G. C.—A company of the National Guard of
California was organized in Riverside in December, 1888, and was for a time
known as the Riverside Rifles. A reorganization of the militia a year later made
it Company M of the Seventh Regiment, the first officers being: James N. Keith,
captain; H. La V. Twining, first lieutenant, and S. R. Longworthy, second
lieutenant. During its existence the following have been its commanders: James
N. Keith, January 3, 1890; J. A. Eason, September 30, 1897; Charles F. Pann,
March 31, 1899; Curtis F. Huse, May 14, 1900; Harry E. Mitchell, January 7,
1901; Frederick M. Heath, January 30, 1905; Peter J. Bollinger, May 4, 1908, and
Miguel Estudillo, January 2, 1912.

   Upon the outbreak of the Spanish war the company enlisted for a two-year term
in the United States service, and, under command of Capt. C. F. Pann, arrived at
San Francisco with three commissioned officers and 100 enlisted men, May 7, 1898.

   The following is the roster of the company: Captain, Charles F. Pann; first
lieutenant, H. J. Bedwell; second lieutenant, Charles B. Bayley; first sergeant,
Harry E. Mitchell; quartermaster sergeant, John T. Short; sergeants, Foye D.
Battles, John W. Horton, William E. Thompson and Edward R. Nicholson; corporals,
Carlton J. Baldwin, Frederick J. Cox, D. Frank Bell, George B. Cox, Ernest A.
Meacham, Eugene C. Johnson, Philip N. Van Slyck, William P. Pann, Clarence J.
Jarvis, Albert D. Gage, Edwin A. Merwin, Peter J. Bollinger and John D. Boyd;
privates, Bernard Goss, Charles P. Chamberlain, Edward H. Mercer, Fred E.
Barney, Samuel M. Bloom, William T. Babcock, Lewis J. Burnham, William H.
Brimacomb, Dennis A. Ball, Charles B. Belden, Hunter Bowen, Arthur D. Bell, John
G. Bryan, Frank Bridenstein, Charles A. Cover, George H. Campbell, Herbert S.
Cunningham, William D. Craig, Lewis Craig, Judd C. Cleveland, Forrest R.
Cleveland, Harry S. Chandler, Daniel Cameron, Thomas H. Dix, Robert L. Ditto,
Cornelius Donaghue, Wallace Evans, Lloyd E. Elwell, Burt Fairchild, Cecil N.
Funk, Edgar Gardner, Herman Gessler, Edward Grant, Clarence Goforth, Eddie A.
Hart, Joseph R. Hamar, Henry Haskell, Myler L. Hains, Harry L. Hanson, Robert L.
Henderson, William Hoogendyke, Jacob Jacobson, Fred C. Jonas, Frederick Kniss,
Nicholas Kung, Gustav Krass, Scott LaRue, Roger T. Labadie, Alexander Law, Harry
L. Lewis, Frank Loer, David A. Moriarty, Warren J. Marsh, Robert V. Meyer, Otis
H. Mort, Eddy W. Mort, Clyde O. Mack, Henry F. Nelson, D. Adelbert Newcombe,
Daniel V. Noland, Thomas M. Nicol, George E. Pomeroy, Floyd E. Pomeroy, John P.
Peterson, William H. Painter, Lawrence Preston, Mack A. Patton, Edward H.
Parsons, Clelland W. Rohrer, John W. Peck, Samuel H. Ralph, Guy B. Russell,
Herbert Robuck, Walter R. Strong, George Scott, James J. Shultz, George D.
Taylor, Joseph N. Thornton, Joseph H. Timmons, Jesse Van Meter, Andrew G.
Williams, John M. Young, Francis M. Horton, Harry E. Tobias, D. G. Fairchild.
Fenn D. Twogood was transferred to the United States Hospital Corps, and went to
the Philippines. Dr. W. W. Roblee was a member of the regimental staff, being
assistant surgeon, with the rank of captain.


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HISTORY OF
Riverside County
CALIFORNIA
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified With Its Growth and Development From
the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
ELMER WALLACE HOLMES
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
1912


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