Civil War Rooster Floyd County, Iowa (from "History of Floyd County-1882")

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TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY.


Company A. - Fourth sergeant, Allen Adams.  Eighth corporal - William H. Wagner.  
Privates - James Goble, John J. Gaylord, Salathiel Gregory, Albert A. Ide, 
John Jones, Midian Kannouse, William Reed, Samuel Sullivan, David C. Wagner.

TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.


Company E. - Private - Jerome C. Godfrey.
Company G. - Captain - Charles A. Slocum.  
Second lieutenant -Edward Reiniger.  
Second sergeant - George P. Smith.  
Fifth Sergeant -Albert G. Daniels. 
Second corporal - Lewis J. Treat. 
Fourth corporal -George B. Austin.  
Fifth corporal-George W. Perrin.  
Sixth corporal -Lewis Y. Dawley.  
Eighth corporal-Frederick A. Dutcher.  
Privates -Jacob C. Allen, Samuel S. Allen, William S. Bates, Eber L. Blood, 
Eugene S. Brown, Alpheus L. Carnan, Edward Crowell, Daniel M. Dean, 
William C.Decker, Cyrus H. Eaton, Isaac N. Fleenor, George T. Frazee, 
Leander Green, Aldice G. Crow, Norton D. Crow, John H. Hanchett, Silas W. Haren,
Samuel Hays, Perry Heltinger, Jacob R. Howdeshell, David Ibler, Sylvanus
P. Ireland, William H. H. Kellogg, Ernest Knouse, George Maloney, 
Freeman McAllister, John Mitchell, W. V. Montgomery, William C. Moore, 
Frederick Nuhm, Joseph Munson, Lewis Murray, James Noble, Hershell I. Perrin,
George N. Potter, Thomas Price, Stacy J. Purdy, Lorenzo D. Raymond, 
William Refsnider, Joseph C. Rich, Jacob Shannon, Levi Schermerhorn, 
Lafayette Smith, Myron Smith, William E. Swain, Albert H. Thomson, 
Sidney Winkler, Martin Wise, Samuel Wise, Charles Wood, Charles T.Wright,
John Wright, Aurin S. Young, Temple Young.


THIRTY-SECOND INFANTRY.

Companv D. - Private - Edward E. Billings.
Company G. - First sergeant - William A. Keister. 
Fourth sergeant. -Tyler Blake.  
Fifth sergeant - Asael Straun.  
Third corporal - Ansel D.Weeks.  
Fourth corporal - Timothy W. Folger.  
Musician - Horace G. Hawks.  
Privates - William V. Allen, James H. Boon, Sidney W. Boon,
Sylvester M. Boon, Warren Boon, Michael Cline, William Comstock,
Nathaniel B. Gleason, William T. Hall, Elias Miller, Francis M. Miller, 
Joel Phillips, Henry Smith, Jabez Straun.


FORTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.

Company R. - First sergeant - Charles Kelly. Privates-Henry A. Buel,
Jacob W. Clark, Silas W. Colwell, Isaac S. Higgins.


FORTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.

Company E. - First lieutenant - Van Renselaer Rider. 
Fourth sergeant - Horace A. Gregory.  
Fifth corporal - Norman M. Wolcott.  
Privates - Addison I. Adams, Francis Babcock, Benjamin R. Franklin, 
Lewis W. Gregory, Noah W. Hardiman, Benjamin F. Holcomb, Eugene Otis, 
James F. Powers, Alex. A. Sullivan, Wilson Whitney, William Wilson.


THE HUNDRED-DAY MEN.

The Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh regiments
were known as One-Hundred-Day men, that being the term of service for
which they were enlisted. They were assigned to garrison duty, enabling
the older soldiers to go forward to the field of more active service. The
one-hundred-day men, however, did as good service to the cause of the Union
as those who took an active part in the most famous battles of the war.


FIRST CAVALRY.

Company M. - Third sergeant - Edward A. Dunham.  Privates - John Brown, 
Asa W. Rose.


FOURTH CAVALRY.

Company B. - Privates-Charles A. Fitch, Sylvester Hammers.
Company G. - Private - Orlando Bagley.
Company H. - Privates - Joseph L. Baker, Theodore Daniel, Hugh B.
Laird, John Laird, John R. McNabb, Levi Suttifo.


SIXTH CAVALRY.

Company B. - Third corporal - George L. Gregory. Fourth corporal - 
Allen E. King. Privates - Theodore P. Barnes, James Gregory, Philip Judd.


SEVENTH CAVALRY.

Company F. - Fourth sergeant - Alanson Hanchett.  
Privates - John O'Hair, Jr., Michael O'Hair.
Company C. - Private - Andrew J. Cottrell.
Company G. - First lieutenant - Richard W. Montague.  Commissary
Sergeant - Benjamin F. Cheney.  Third sergeant - Elliott P. Rider. 
Fifth Sergeant - J. N. Montgomery.  Fifth corporal - Horace B. Boni.  
Seventh Corporal - Allen S. Russell.  
Privates - Luther B. Billings, William Blunt,Barney Corby, Charles B. Crumb,
James Ellsworth; Joseph F. Fluent, George M. Hubbard, John W. Kellogg, 
Albert D. Leavitt, George W. Stoner, John W.  Turner, William H. Veza, Roswell Walker.
Company L. - Private - Prior S. Bristo.


NINTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY.

Company J. - Private - Edward R. Young.


THIRD BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY.

Quartermaster - sergeant - Orlo H Lyon.  
Fourth sergeant - Charles J.Pixley. 
Privates - Barton Bentner, John S. Bradbury, George W. Chapman,
Francis E. Davidson, Jay De Wolf, George F. Fleenor, Charles R. Franklin,
James Franklin, Johnson Geary, Henry D. Gifford, Samuel C. Goble,
Jabez A. Hall, William S. Henderson, Bartholomew Hennerick, Charles Knapp, 
Jacob R. Knapp, Gennerius Knudson, John W. Mahoney, Samuel P. Pearson, 
Harrison Pierce, William B. Pierce, E. G. Robbins, Alva A. Robinson, 
William R. Walker, Joseph Wilcox, Jacob Yost.


FLOYD COUNTY'S OFFICERS.

This county was represented during the Civil War by the following
officers:
Benjamin F. Cheney, quartermaster, Ninth Cavalry.
Richard N. Montagtue, captain, Ninth Cavalry.
Elliott P. Rider, second lieutenant, Ninth Cavalry.
Orlo H. Lyon, captain, Third Battery, Light Artillery.
Robert G. Reiniger, captain, Company B, Seventh Regiment, Iowa.
Samuel P. Fulsom, captain, Company B, Seventh Infantry Regiment.
Giles W. Mead, first lieutenant, Company B, Seventh Infantry.
Allen Adams, second lieutenant, Company A, Twenty-first Regiment.
George P. Smith, quartermaster, Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry.
Charles A. Slocum, captain, Company G, Twenty-seventh Infantry.
Eugene S. Brown, first lieutenant, Company B, Twenty-seventh Cavalrv.
Van R. Rider, second lieutenant, Company E. Forty-seventh Infantry.
         

                    
FLOYD COUNTY MEN AT MEXICAN BORDER.(MEXICAN WAR)

The following was the roster of the company at the time of its return from the 
South and muster out of the United States service.
Captain -Thomas A. Beardmore.
First lieutenant - J. Clarence Grinde.
Second lieutenant-Robert L. Norton.
First sergeant-John B. Cross.
Mess sergeant~Elmer J. Waller.
Supply sergeant-Otto Michaelis.
Sergeants-Marshall A. Shannon, Ruluff E. Kellogg, Harry Nelson, Arthur H. Sanford, 
Edward L. Slick and George Olen Wilson.
Corporals~George W. Moore, William C. Buchan, George G. Regel, Fred Alfred Frudden, 
William A. Deist, Oscar W. Johnson,Campbell E. Brunton, Fred F. Stoeber and Ben W. Frederick.
Cooks-George W. Kurtz and Dean H. Dow.
Buglers-Paul K. Lee and Harry E. Peterson.
Privates-John L. Bach, Robert A. Bathke, John Beardmore, Jr., Fred Decker, Samuel M. Eby, 
Fred EIliott, Carl W. Ferree,Clarence E. Hartwell, Carl G. A. Heyer, Frank E. Hill, 
George W. Hobbs, Herman J. Huxsol, Albin W. Jahnel, Daniel J. Kinney, August A. Koloc, 
Leo T. Little, Herbert W. Prudhon, John J. Schroeder, Laurence 0. Weatherford, Mark A. Adams, 
Ray A. Altenberg, Valdon Barr, Leonard Blotz, Dewey Bray, Elmer J. Burnside, George A. Calhoun, 
Carl L. Caviness, Worth M. Dewey, Harvey H. Hicks, Harley J. Hill, Albert A. Huxsol, 
Nels Jorgensen, Anton A. Koloc. George E. Leslie, George H. Meinzer, Lloyd B. Mitchell;
Mark A. Mitchell, Clyde W. Monroe, Schuyler C. Nosser, Albert W. Pagel, Erwin W. Patterson, 
William G. Perkins, Herbert F. Peterson, James W. Pierce, Jack D. L. Putney, 
David B. Rhinesmith, Harry T. Schneider, William J. Sherwin, Fred E. Siegert, Leland Slonaker, 
Han E. Troutner, James J. Tucker, William C. Virchow, Albert Theodore Walton and Henry J. Winn.
The following members of the company were discharged during the summer and fall at Brownsville, 
Texas: 
Because of expiration of term of service First sergeant, Guy M. Clammer; corporal, Hans Nelson;
corporal, Oscar E. Anderson; cook, Irving Wiltse, and private, Guy A. Bean. 
Because of defective eyesight - corporal, C. Atlee Wilcox.
The following members of the company were transferred to other service in the regiment: 
To Headquarters Company-Sergeant, Edgar H. Fluent and sergeant, Ephraim W. Cleveland. 
To Engineer Company-Private, Gilbert S. Wacker and private, Marshall L. Ruchte. 
To Supply Company-Waggoner, Amil J. Westegard.

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