Civil War Veterans of Howard Twp.

HARKNESS, ANDERSON, HENDERSON, NELSON, JACOBSON, OPSTVEDT, LEIN, NELSON, DUEA, EGLAND, BOYD, ELIASON, EDWARDS, RITLAND, SMITH, WILKINSON, GRIFFITH, BALLARD, NESS, TORKELSON, HEGLAND, FERGUSON, LUDVIG, BOYES, MCCOLLISTER

Posted By: LInda H Meyers (email)
Date: 11/11/2008 at 13:17:08

clipping from the Roland Record April 20, 1904---

VOLUNTEERS FROM HOWARD TOWNSHIP IN THE CIVIL WAR.

Editor Roland Record:-
When so many of our newspaper publishers of the County and State are turning over the musty files of their issues of the long ago in search of something interesting and historical, it may be well to remember that Howard Township has a past record, one short chapter of which I send you for publication if acceptable. This I believe is a complete roster of the volunteers who enlisted from Howard Twp. to serve in the Union Army during the war of the Great Rebellion from '61 to '65.
It has taken me some time to complete this list and in doing so I have consulted with some of the few remaining veterans and citizens and to Comerade John Ritland I am especially indebted for able assistance.
The roll is as follows:

COMPANY 'K' 32 INFANTRY
Joseph L. Harkness (1)
Frank Anderson (2)
Henry B. Henderson (3)
John Nelson
Jacob B. Jacobson
Oliver Opstvedt
Tom Lein
Nels L. Nelson
Jonas Duea
Osmund Egland (4)
George Boyd
Henry Eliason (5)
William Edwards
John Ritland
Fletcher Smith
William Smith
(1) Taken Prisoner at Mt. Pleasant. Released after 10 months.
(2) Killed at Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864.
(3) Killed at Lake Chicot, June 6, 1864.
(4) Died from disease at Memphus, June, 1864.
(5) Died from disease at Columbus, Ky., Aug. 30, 1861.

8TH IOWA INFANTRY.
Edgar Wilkinson
Royal Sheffield

13TH IOWA INFANTRY.
Asa Griffith

23RD IOWA INFANTRY
D. P. Ballard (1)
Chris Ness (2)
H. D. Ballard
Chris Tokelson
Tom Opstvedt
Thor Hegland (3)
(1) Wounded at Champion Hill, May 16 1863.
(2) Died at home during war, in Feb. 1864.
(3) Died from disease in Mo. 1862

1ST AND 12TH IOWA INFANTRY
J. D. Ferguson (1)
(1) Killed at Shiloh, April 6,'62

16TH IOWA INFANTRY
James Ludvig

2ND IOWA CAVALRY
H. F. Ferguson
G. W. Boyes (1)
James McCollister
(1) Wounded and discharged at Boonesville, Miss. July 1. 1862

1ST INFANTRY AND 2ND CAVALRY.
H. H. Boyes

All who have not been otherwise designated returned home.
When we remember that Howard Township was but sparsely settled during those years, most of it being wild unbroken prairie with few homes as compared with the present we can consider this list a very creditable showing.

Yours truly,
H. H. Boyes.