History of Washington County, Iowa; From the First White Settlements to 1908. Also Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County Volu - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. WASHINGTON COUNTY IN WAR. We do not claim Timothy Brown, the soldier of the Revolution, who died in this county and was buried in Elm Grove with honors and with oratory by Federal Judge McPherson, nor do we claim any soldiers in the war of 1812. But we may properly count on volunteers in the Mexican war, who settled here after it. One was Capt. N. A. Holson, of Cedar township, who enlisted in March, '47, in Company D, Fourth Ohio Infantry, when sixteen years old, and was mustered out in '48, and became captain of Company E, Tenth Iowa, in the Civil war. Thomas C. Scott, of Iowa township, was another. He went out with the First Louisiana Battalion, Company B. Elias Leynard, of Riverside, was a third. He enlisted in the third New York, and served two years, and was wounded in the fights around Mexico City, but he got a fand warrant in compensation for his services, for one hundred and sixty acres, as did Mr. Scott. Daniel Mickey, of Oregon township, served fourteen months, and located near Brighton his one hundred and sixty acres. Phillip Haynes, of Lime Creek, was another Mexican war soldier. Perhaps there are others. Wm. Corbin came here from Kentucky in '41, locating four miles northeast of Washington. He served in the Black Hawk war in 1832. But what would one think of this true statement? This county in 1860 had but fourteen thousand two hundred and thirty-five population, but under Lincoln's calls of 1861-2, she furnished one thousand two hundred and forty men, a surplus of five hundred and fifty-four. So says a report of the adjutant general and acting quartermaster general. Her quota was six hundred and eighty-six men. Think of a township like Lime Creek giving one hundred and thirty-eight men, sifted through twenty...
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