Civil War

WEST, GIBBONS, NORMAN, MUNSEY, MASON, BUCHANAN, MICHENER, WHIPPO, NEHAM, RHOMBERG, GEONNEL, MCHENRY, HOYT, DETTMER

Posted By: Hal Hatcher (email)
Date: 3/8/2005 at 06:52:17

Glenwood, Mills Co. Tribune
8 November 1917

KILLED IN CIVIL WAR

First Casualties In Battle In Missouri

The first Iowa soldier killed in battle during the Civil War was Cyrus W. West of Co. H, Third Iowa infantry, according to data collected by a member of the record staff of the State Historical Society. He was nineteen years old when mustered in with Company from Mahaska County on June 8, 1861. He was killed at the battle of Monroe Station, Missouri in Jul 1961. John Austin Gibbons, while not a member of an Iowa regiment, was probably the second Iowa soldier to be killed in action. He was a Dubuque boy, a member of Co. C. First Cavalry, United States Army, and was killed at Spring Creek, (Dug Springs), Mo. on August 2, 1861.

At the battle of Wilson’s Creek, Mo. on August 10, 1861, the following members of the First Iowa Infantry were killed, Shelly Norman of Co. A; William R. Munsey of Co. B; Alexander L. Mason; Alexander Buchanan, and Charles C. Michener of Co. C.; Jacob V. Whippo of Co. F.; Hans Jenzen Neham of Co. G.; Fred Rhomberg and Louis Goennel of Co. H.; Joseph H. McHenry of Co. I; and Perry Hoyt of Co. K.; Frederick Dettmer of Co. H. was at first reported killed, but later was found to be only severely wounded.