Anderson County KS Archives History - Books .....Chapter XXIII 1877 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com August 4, 2005, 11:49 pm Book Title: THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876. CHAPTER XXIII. Names of the Soldiers of Anderson County who Served in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion—Names of the Heroic Dead, who Sacrificed their Lives in the Cause of their Country. ON the 14th day of April, 1861, the whole nation was startled by the announcement that the proud ensign of the nation was lowered from the flag staff of Fort Sumter, and the gallant defenders of that garrison had been overpowered and compelled to surrender, after two days' fearful cannonading, and a rebellious ensign flaunted as the emblem of a new nationality over a national fortress, from whence the American flag had been lowered. The news, borne by the electric flash throughout the land, was astounding and instantaneous, and men throughout the loyal States were soon clad in full panoply of war. The nation, one day pursuing the usual avocations of peace, is the next in full armor of war. The citizen retired at night a civilian; he arose in the morn a soldier. The first call for volunteers was made on the 15th of April, the next day after Fort Sumter had surrendered, and on the 3Oth of May following the first Kansas regiment was mustered into the service and on the march to the front, and thus in quick succession regiment after regiment was recruited and mustered into "the service, until, in 1863, Kansas had sixteen regiments and two batteries of artillery in the field. Anderson county was represented by her brave and heroic men in each of these regiments and batteries. They went forth at the call of the country to help suppress the most wicked and stupendous rebellion that had ever characterized the history of a nation, and the gallant sons of Anderson county, in whatever conflict they have been engaged, have permitted none to eclipse their personal bravery. The Adjutant General of the State, in his report of the Kansas regiments, says: "The number of Kansas heroes, dead upon a hundred battle fields, attests at once the personal courage of the soldier, and his devotion to the State and his loyalty to the federal Union, who in peace proves his faith by the sweat of his brow, and in war by the blood of his breast." The noble and heroic boys of Anderson county who left home and friends and volunteered at their country's call, and went forth to help suppress the rebellion, and imperiled their lives on the many battle fields, or in the prison pens of the South, deserve to be kindly remembered by their surviving comrades and the public generally, and their names should be perpetuated in the history of the country, and their services and sacrifices duly and highly appreciated. We here append the names of the brave boys of the county who served in the army during the rebellion: James G. Blunt, lieutenant colonel, Third regiment Kansas volunteers; promoted to brigadier general, April, 1862, and afterwards to major general. SECOND KANSAS INFANTRY—THREE MONTHS' SERVICE. Company E—Samuel J. Crawford, captain; John G. Lindsay, first lieutenant; Samuel K. Cross, second lieutenant; Henry Nugent, ensign; John Johnston, orderly sergeant; David Wright, R. H. P. Snodgrass, Zach. Norris, Hugh Quinn, sergeants; James F. Walker, James L. Kercheval, James L. Wilson, corporals; Henry Neal, Robert Beck, George Bacon, musicians; Charles Ballance, Thomas H. Ballard. John Campbell, Thomas Dykes, David S. Eaton, Edward Farrah, Jacob Fields, James E. Herd, Albert Johnson, George Johnson, Ezra Kirkland, William Kline, John Norris, Charles Paul, James Paul, Albert Payne, Alfred Peak, Franklin Royal, Ephraim Reynolds. John W. Ramsey, Ezra Romine, David Ruckel, Albert Saulsbery, David Slater, Theopholis Smith, John Stanton, Abisha Stowell, Henry S. Shannon, James B. Tenbrook, Vardeuius Viles, Herman Wilcox, Joseph H. Williams, Samuel Winklepleck, privates. SECOND KANSAS CAVALRY—THREE YEARS' SERVICE, Company A—Samuel J. Crawford (promoted to colonel of Second Kansas colored), John Johnston (promoted to major), captains; Samuel K. Cross, first lieutenant; Henry Nugent, orderly sergeant; Henry S. Shannon, quartermaster sergeant; Hugh Quinn (promoted to captain in Second Arkansas cavalry), James L. Wilson, Ezra Romine, John P. Hiner. sergeants; Abisha Stowell, Charles T. Williams, James A. Gooch, Edward Wilson, corporals; Barnett Ashburn, Thomas Ballard, John W. Ballard, Stephen M. Bockover, John A. Bockover, Jacob L. Bockover, Abram S. Burch, John Campbell, Jacob Fields, Alexander Graham, Larkiu E. Hensley, Jonathan G. Hiatt, Stewart T. Hiatt, Harbert H. Hiner. James E. Herd, John Q. McLaughlin, Newton M. Morris, Preston Morris, Samuel Morris, Albert Payne, William Paul, John W. Ramsey. Albert Saulsbery, Theopholis Smith, Martin V. B. Stailey, William H. H. Stanwood, James B. Tenbrook, William B. Vess, Valentine Weinheimer, Samuel Winklepleck, William Blizzard, George A. Campbell, William H. Channell, privates. Company C—Leaventine Plummer, John Plummer, privates. FIFTH KANSAS CAVALRY. Company K—Jeremiah C. Johnson, first lieutenant: Alexander Rush, second lieutenant: August Bondi, sergeant; John W. Pattee, William J. Wade, George Lewis, corporals; Freeman F. Austin, Jacob F. M. Frank. James B. Frank, John Gerth, William B. Lewis, Robert McLaughlin, Thomas Wade, John B. Maness, John B. Stitt, Edward Wade, privates. SEVENTH KANSAS CAVALRY. Company G—D. W. Houston, first lieutenant (promoted to captain of company H, and afterward to lieutenant colonel); Zach. Norris, first lieutenant; William Tefft, quartermaster sergeant; Joseph Y. Alexander, William B. Springer, Miles Morris, Ephraim Reynolds, George W. Arrell, sergeants; James M. Tefft, Noah V. Ness, James F. Hamby, corporals; William N. Hamby, jr., musician; Isaac Morley, farrier; Bernard Setter, saddler; Hiram Driggs, Jesse Harper, William N. Hamby, sen., William Lampman, John W. Minton, Thomas Newton, George H. T. Springer, Pha Tefft, Marcus L. Underwood, William Williams, John W. Young, Alfred W. Jones, John Norris, David Ruckel, James W. Springer, Joseph Wilhite, Daniel O. Kief, Martin Reda, Elijah Pruett, William F. R. Paul, Abner B. Glover, Dorsey McAfee, John Pangborn, Henry Poteet, Joseph O. Smith, Jesse Stephenson, Martin Setter, John Q. Tefft, Melvin Cottle, privates. EIGHTH KANSAS INFANTRY. John Buterbaughy assistant surgeon. Company F—George G. Price, sergeant; George W. Mathews, corporal; James M. Day, John H. Day, Abram Rosa, Andrew Richards, Squire Rosa, David Witt, privates. NINTH KANSAS CAVALRY. Charles T. Cooper, regimental commissary. Company C—Thomas McKnight, sergeant; Benjamin F. Ayres (promoted to first lieutenant), Joseph Mundell, Samuel Mundell, privates. Company D—Henry M. Anderson, Virgil M. Hollomon, Charles S. McCoon, James Rumley, Thomas J. Rumley, Henry Wiggins, privates. Company F—Conrad B. Alder, private. Company H—H. N. F. Reed, second lieutenant (afterwards promoted to captain of company I); David Hester, orderly sergeant (afterwards promoted to first lieutenant of company C); Jacob R. Shields, William H. Nichols, Edward Bulson, Henry Strickland, Cyrus H. Lowry, Alfred Brown, William P. Aldridge, Charles A. Rankin, James R. Eaton, sergeants; Daniel Harmon, William G. Hill, Thos. Means, Jesse Button, John Aldridge, corporals: James M. Aldridge, William Cooper, Ottawa Button, Redington J. Shields, Travis Farmer, William Starr, Julian S. White, Herbert Brown, William G. Eaton, John J. Martin, Patrick B. Redington, William Skinner, Elihue Wilson, privates. TENTH KANSAS INFANTRY. Company C—Charles Brown, sergeant (promoted to first lieutenant, April 1,1863); Thomas Spencer, John E. Blunt (promoted to first lieutenant in 1862), corporals; Perry Kirkland, musician: Christian Barhain, Henry Bar-ham, Abner Heflin, Samuel Strong, Eli Barham, Marcus M. Vinton, Edward C. Ross, James H. Farrah, Thomas R. Fagg, A. R. Garrett, Solomon Kauffman (promoted to first lieutenant, September 11,1862, and to captain, May 28, 1863), Joseph Kiesler, John A. Kirkland, Joseph King, A. Reynolds, Nathaniel Spriggs, Malichi Tyler, privates. Company H—Thomas R. Morris, James L. Morris, Hiram Vess, privates. Company I—Harry W. Stubblefield, sergeant; John Jillison, Thomas D. Masterson, John Martin, John McD. Martin, Mark Perkins, George H. Sater, privates. ELEVENTH KANSAS. David H. Johnson, hospital steward. Company F—J. G. Reese, John G. Lindsay, captains; George W. Simons, first lieutenant; Marvin H. Payne, second lieutenant; John Horn, orderly sergeant; David C. Lowe, Francis McShane, William L. Frankenberger, quartermaster sergeants; Samuel H. Furgeson, Eber L. Haywood, David A. Whipp, Thomas S. Kelley, David D. Judy, Lloyd Sparr, sergeants; James L. Kercheval, George Barker, William R. Borrer, Frank Feuhouse, William F. Hiatt, Christian Rebstock, Frank Minor, Allen G. Poteet, William R. Ingram, Benjamin F. Webb, Hiram Spriggs, William McGrew, James Rogers, Wilber D. West, corporals; Jonathan Bigelow, farrier; Wm. Bendall, John Sullivan, buglers; William Ayass, Henry Ayass, Charles Ashburn, Enoch W. Barker, John Burns, John Bingamon, Nathan W. Barker, Charles W. Backer, Jackson •Black, Allen W. Bingamon, Chester Cummings, John Campbell, Robert W. Corker, George W. Carlyle, Charles E. Dewey, Hewitt Dixon, Henry V. Dart, Charles Drake, John B. Dilday, Levi Daniel, John H. Feuerborn, Joshua Griffith, John Hall, Ishurn C. Hudnall, Robert Hart, Ira E. Hollomon, John H. Hydorn, Thomas Hunt, Isaac Hull, Joseph M. Hiner, Homer Johnson, Cyrus K. Johnson, Richard A. Jones, Frederick Tochterman, Robert H. Moore, John R. Montgomery, Abram R. Mumaw, Archibald McGrew, William A. Majors, George Manlove, Addison Morris, Manly M. Minkler, James J. Mason, Ad-donijah Maness. John P. Oswold, Elisha J. Peters, David S. Peters, Charles Pritchard, Henry Paul, John Pickett, Alexander Rush (promoted to captain in the Second Kansas colored), William Rebstock, John H. Smith, John H. Shultz, John Zeitzler, Samuel S. Stailey, James E. Tanksley, William Vess, John Winklepleck, Henry Westmier, Daniel W. Wright. Charles W. Young, Isaac N. Beeler, Ernestes P. Gilpatrick (promoted to first lieutenant), William D. Hamilton, Chester C. Johnson, Isaac Norton, Henry Putnam, James Paul, James Rogers, Thomas J. Shultz, Thomas Severns, John Severns, John Sutton, John Taylor, Martin McGrew, privates. TWELFTH KANSAS INFANTRY. Thomas Lindsay, assistant surgeon. Company G—Alexander McArthur, first lieutenant; Frank H. Crum, orderly sergeant; William McLaughlin, sergeant; William M. Agnew, V. M. Hollomon, William Q. Wickersham, Robert Whitson, corporals; Wilson Anderson, William Bandle, Joseph L. Eaton, James 0. Kelso, Ezra Kesselring. Julius Mathews, Samuel T. Nichols, David R. Pattee, Benjamin F. Pattee. Francis M. Pettit, Louis G. Ragain, George A. Shields, William D. Whitson. William J. Williams, privates. FIFTEENTH KANSAS CAVALRY. Company M—W. A. Johnson, captain; Jeremiah C. Johnson, commissary sergeant; Charles Paul, sergeant: Calvin G. Chaffee, Thomas Dykes, Elias R. Johnson, James Moore, Hugh McNulty, William E. South, Thomas S. Tyler, privates; Charles W. Warren, musician. SIXTEENTH KANSAS CAVALRY. Company H—H. W. Stubblefield, captain. Company L—Jesse Baker, Henry C. Dennison, Henry Gadbery, Jackson Gadbery, Daniel W. Hoover. Isaac Johnson, Martin V. Kimmel, William T. Kimmel, Ransoii Mundell, William F. Priest, H. L. Poplin, Charles Sumption, John T. Smith, James South, L P. Sutton, Jacob C. Sutton. Andrew South, Nathan White, William A. Ward, privates. W. G. Nichols, John G. McGue, J61m Pangborn, James Townsley, John R. Sutton, Thomas Townsley, privates. SECOND KANSAS COLORED. G. W. Walgamott, surgeon; J. R. Montgomery, adjutant; George W. Sands, captain company E. ELEVENTH U. S. COLORED. Ernestes P. Gilpatrick and Alanson Simons, first lieutenants. FIRST KANSAS BATTERY. B. P. Brown, private. SECOND KANSAS BATTERY. William C. Caskey, David Moyer, Thomas Salkeld, J. M. Stigenwalt, A. J. Stigenwalt, privates. When the wicked rebellion had been suppressed, and the brave men had been in the.service, many of them for more than three years, and encountered all the hardships incident to a soldier's life on the march, in camp or in the din of battle, in the prison pen or the hospital, the survivors of these hardships returned to their homes and families to enjoy the blessings of peace. But on their return many sad hearts ached for the loss of a dear husband, father, brother or son that had gone away in the full strength and vigor of manhood, but had fallen in the cause of his country and is now sleeping in a bloody and unknown grave, leaving his deeds of valor and his sufferings to be told by surviving comrades, and his memory to be perpetuated in history, and his service and sufferings to be appreciated by all loyal and liberty-loving people of the nation. The following are the names of the heroic dead who sacrificed their lives in the cause of their country: Albert Saulsbery, private company A, Second Kansas. Sergeant R. H. P. Snodgrass and corporal Albert Johnson, company E, Second Kansas. Corporals William J. Wade and George Lewis, and privates Freeman F. Austin, Jacob F. Frank, James B. Frank, John Gerth, William B. Lewis and Robert McLaughlin, company K, Fifth Kansas. Sergeant Ephraim Reynolds, corporals Noah V. Vess and James F. Hamby, Isaac Morley, farrier, and John Q. Tefft, private, company G, Seventh Kansas. Sergeant George G. Price, and David Witt, private, company F, Eighth Kansas. Sergeants Jacob R. Shields, William H. Nichols and Henry Strickland, and privates Redington J. Shields, William Starr, Julian S. White, William Skinner, Samuel Mundell and David P. Bethurem, company H, Ninth Kansas. Corporal Thomas Spencer, and privates Nathaniel Spriggs, Edward C. Ross, Malichi Tyler and James H. Farrah, company C, Tenth Kansas. Corporal Benjamin F. Webb, and privates Nathan W. Barker, Charles W. Backer, Robert W. Crocker, Charles Drake, Frederick Tochterman, Isaac Hull, James J. Mason, Addonijah Maness, John H. Smith, John Winklepleck, Henry Westmier, David W. Wright, Charles W. Young and Isaac N. Beeler, company F, Eleventh Kansas. Orderly Sergeant Frank H. Crum, and privates Francis M. Pettit and William D. Whitson, company G, Twelfth Kansas. James Moore, private, company M, Fifteenth Kansas. Alexander Rush, captain of company H, Second Kansas colored. Hugh Quinn, captain. Second Arkansas cavalry. B. P. Brown, private, First Kansas battery. William G. Nichols and Thomas Townsley, privates. Sixteenth Kansas. Anderson county had four hundred and twenty volunteers in the service during the rebellion, and out of that number fifty-six were killed and died of disease while in the service. Additional Comments: THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876. BY W. A. JOHNSON, CHAIRMAN OF HISTORICAL COMMITTEE. PUBLISHED BY KAUFFMAN & ILER, GARNETT PLAINDEALER, 1877. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, by KAUFFMAN & ILER, In the office of the Librarian of Congress,Washington, D. C. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/anderson/history/1877/anderson/chapterx76ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 15.8 Kb