Looby, John H. 1834 - 1909

LOOBY

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 11/24/2019 at 10:29:12

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Jan. 4, 1910, P2, C6

OLD TIME SOLDIER GETS LAST SUMMONS
Former Adjutant General John H. Looby Dies in Des Moines of Old Age.
Brigadier General John H. Looby, former adjutant general of Iowa and a gallant soldier during the war of the Rebellion, is dead in Des Moines and Governor Carroll has ordered all national guard officers in the state to wear a badge of crape on their sword hilts for thirty days in respect to his memory.
When the war broke out Looby enlisted as a private in company D, Seccond{sp} Iowa infantry, and was badly wounded in the battle of Shiloh. After he recovered he was transferred to the Eighteenth infantry and made a second lieutenant. Later he was promoted to first lieutenant and then to captain. In January, 1864, he was promoted to major of the Sixty-second United States colored infantry, but was detached for staff duty until the close of the war. Ho served in the adjutant general's department and the inspector general’s department.
Returning to Iowa after the war, he was made adjutant, general in 187{?} and served with distinction for two years.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Woodland Cemetery and that he was born November 25, 1834 and died December 23, 1909.