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Book Title: Annals Of Polk County, Iowa And City Of Des Moines

FORTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.

   This regiment was organized under a proclamation of the President, April 21,
1864, calling for 100,000 men to serve for one hundred days in fortifications,
or wherever their service might be required. This was to relieve the veteran
troops so they might all be sent to the front The Governor of Iowa called for
10,000 men to enlist under the call, and it was promptly responded to, Polk
county was especially prompt and active and was largely represented in the
Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth regiments, raised under this call.
The Forty-fourth was mustered July 13, 1864, and mustered out the following
October 21. Polk county was represented on the staff by:

  Josiah Hopkins, major; Lucius Boudinot, hospital steward; William Merrill,
principal musician.

COMPANY H.   Enlisted May 11.

   Josiah Hopkins, captain; promoted to major June 1.
   William Van Dorn, second lieutenant; promoted to first lieutenant, June 1, 1864.
   William H. Minnick, third sergeant.
   Thomas J. Pierce, fifth sergeant; promoted to first sergeant June 3, 1864.
   Elijah L. Pierce, second corporal; promoted to first corporal June 10, 1864.
   Adoniram J. Beals, third corporal; promoted to second corporal June 10, 1864.
   Emery Merrill, musician.
   William Merrill, musician; promoted to principal musician June 1, 1864.

PRIVATES.

   Burt, George W.
   Braunt, Horatio.
   Bishop, John E.,
   Baker, Elisha.
   Brooks, James E. T.
   Baker, Francis M.
   Beason, Albert.
   Curl, George.
   Casebier, Elijah.
   Dickey, James A.
   Erlick, Samuel S.
   Filmer, Edward.
   Grant, George W. 
   Hopkins, Silas W.
   Hopkins, Robert
   Highland, John W.
   Kenaston, James A., promoted to eighth corporal July 10, 1864
   Moore, William R.
   Merrill, Emery.
   Pierce, William B.
   Rutgers, Reuben R.
   Richards, Jonathan.
   Ruttgers, Peter M.
   Ruttgers, John H., died at Davenport September 15, 1864.
   Stephens, Charles.
   Shewey, James M.
   Wheelhouse, John N.


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ANNALS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA,
AND
CITY OF DES MOINES
BY WILL PORTER.

"And this volume, dedicated to its people, sets forth in attractive style all
the facts and incidents that go to make up the history of which all citizens are
justly proud."
—Major Hoyt Sherman.

GEO. A. MILLLER PRINTING COMPANY,
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS,
DES MOINES, IOWA,
1898.

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