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19th Iowa Infantry
Following appears in Vol. I, History of Lee Co., IA.published 1914, page 199:
Lewis M. Soanaker, of Lee County, mustered in as assistant surgeon of this regiment on August 23, 1862, and was afterward promoted surgeon. Companies A and E were raised in Lee County.
The commissioned officers of Company A at the time of muster in were as follows:
- John Bruce,Captain
- Thomas L. Spratt, First Lieutenant
- Norvill Powell, Second Lieutenant.
Captain Bruce was promoted major in December,1862,when Lieutenance Spratt became captain, and a short time before the regiment was mustered out Bruce became colonel. Leutenant Powell was transferred to Company E, of which he became captain in August, 1864.
The sergeants of the company when it entered the service were:
William Ballinger (promoted second lieutenant)
Eugene L. Knight, John L. Schraeder and Benjamin F. McIntyre (promoted first lieutenant).
Hiram W. Snyder, Bruce W. Cotton, Timiothy F. Phillips, Edmond A. Dickey, Charles H. Judd, and Oscar G. Burch were the corporals.
Privates:
- Howell G. Adell
- John T. Adell
- David G. Anderson(promoted corporal)
- Robert C. Anderson
- Byron E. Andrews
- James M. Avis
- Julien Ballard
- Albert Bane
- John Best
- Lewis N. Beucler
- John M. Boyer
- Lewis M. Boyer
- John T. Chambers(promoted corporal)
- Isaac N. Clark
- Samuel Cole
- James M. Coleman
- Joseph Cooper
- Jacob Frederick
- Benjamin F.Gaines
- John M. Gaines
- Isaac M. Glassford
- William Glassford
- Jacob Haisch
- William Harrison
- Elmore Heaton
- George Hoffman
- John Howard
- Harrison Jones
- Isaac Jones
- Philip Jones
- James H. Huffmasn
- David A. Lakin
- Peter Lambert
- Thomas Laughery
- Daniel C. Lemming
- George W. Link
- William S. McCulley
- Patrick McManis
- William H. McVeigh
- Thomas J. Marshall
- Henry A. Montgomery
- Frederick Parks
- Thomas F. Parhan
- Frederick A.N. Pearce
- Alexander Quary
- John W. Reeves
- Thomas Rellihan
- Bendie Reumer
- Daniel Rider
- Henry Rider
- Andrew J. Riley
- David A. Robertson
- Jacob Root
- Charles W. Sackman
- Christian Schmidt
- Conrad Shaefer
- Andrew Sheets
- Eli Sheets
- John Simmons
- Harmon Sortwell
- William Spain
- James Sproat
- Samuel M. Stephenson
- John P. Stephenson
- William Stuart
- Alexander M. Taylor
- Charles W. Towner
- Jasper Trimble
- James Utley
- William T. Utley
- Jesse W. Webb
- Joseph White
- David A. Wilkins
- David Wise
- Charles Wright.
Company E was mustered in with:
William Adams as Captain
William H. Gill, First Lieutenant
Samuel B. Guernsey, Second Lieutenant;
William Walker (promoted first lieutenant) Charles E. Gibbs, George E. Hardwick, John S. Kirk and Thomas Wilde were sergeants.
James E. Henderson, James M. Layton, Cullen H. Angel, Charles A. Vice, Elisha Ricketts and James W. McClure were corporals.
Marshall Whinnery and Sylvanus L. Scott - musicians;
William Green - wagoner.
Privates-
- William H. Arnold
- John C. Bonnell(promoted first lieutenant)
- John Bressler
- Samuel Bressler
- Stephen M. Bricker
- Nathaniel Brockway
- Samuel W. Campbell
- Thomas C. Chambers
- Oliver G.B. Cline
- John Cochrane(promoted corporal)
- James R. Crossley
- James Deighton
- Asaph C. Dewey
- George H. Dewey
- Sytlvester Dye
- Adam Eckhart
- Edwin Everett
- Grancis E. Farley
- Henry J. Ferguson
- Joseph A. Ferrell
- Jacob Fitter
- William T. Gray
- Thomas F. Green
- Martin C. Hall
- Alem H. Hampton
- Eli W. Hampton
- Caleb C. Haskins
- Joseph M. Hewitt
- Elisha B. Hitchcock(promoted sergeant)
- James E. Houghland
- William D. Houghland(promoted corporal)
- Elias James,William Johnson
- William C. Kent
- Benjamin Kinion
- William R. Kinion
- Jesse B. Knight
- Charles E. Liddle
- George A. Liddle
- Ebenezer Linn
- William H.H. McCabe
- John McCannon
- Jefferson R. McKaig
- Thomas McOlgan
- Edward Mallett
- John H. Mallett
- Nelson Mallett
- John J. Marsell
- George Martin
- Thomas J. Matlock
- Gideon Miller
- James Montgomery
- Edward Mooney
- Abraham Morgan
- Henry Morgan
- Samuel Munsey
- James S. Murray
- Charles Nave
- Mather Newby
- Charles C. Paulk
- John A. Peasley
- Howard Pennington
- Decatur Pittman
- John J. Potter
- Henry Rhodes(promoted corporal)
- Matthew L. Robertson
- Samuel H. Rogers
- Henry Sarr
- Francis H. Semple
- William H. Semple
- Frank Sherwood
- Abner S. Smally
- Charles M. Smally
- William J. Smally
- Edward Stern
- Joseph A. Street
- Fielder Taylor
- Albert Thompson
- Milton Thompson
- William A. Thompson
- William Thrush
- Daniel R. Tracy
- Patrick Walsh
- William H. Walker
- John Wallace
- William Wilkins
- John Yager
Oscar J. Burch,who enlisted as corporal in Company A, was transferred to Company G, of which he became first lieutenant, and was mustered out as sergeant major.
In that company the following privates were credited to Lee County:
- William T. Alley
- William Allen
- George Gilmore
- Edward Pennington
John Kelley served in Company I, and Benjamin E. Lee in Company K. The Nineteenth was mustered in at Keokuk on August 23, 1862, and ten days later was ordered to St.Louis. After being engaged at Rolla and Cassville, it was attached to Herron's Division, Army of the Border, and was in the Battles of Prairie Grove and Van Buren, Arkansas. It was then ordered to join General Grant's army and took part in the siege and capture of Vicksburg. For a time it was then on duty in Texas; was then sento to Florida, and, after being stationed at Pensacola for a few weeks, aided in the reduction of Mobile. It was mustered out at Mobile on July 10, 1865, and was disbanded at Davenport on the 1st of August.
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