WAR RECORD OF CEDAR COUNTY.
Taken Principally from Adjutant General's Reports
Abbreviations
| Adjt. | Adjutant | | disab. | disabled | | prmtd. | promoted |
| Art. | Artillery | | disd. | discharged | | prisr. | prisoner |
| Bat. | Battle or Battalion | | e. | enlisted | | Regt. | Regiment |
| Col. | Colonel | | excd. | exchanged | | re-e. | re-enlisted |
| Capt. | Captain | | inf. | infantry | | res. | resigned |
| Corp. | Corporal | | inv. | invalid | | Sergt. | Sergeant |
| Comsy. | Commissary | | I.V.I. | Iowa Volunteer Infantry | | trans. | transferred |
| com. | commissioned | | kid. | killed | | vet. | veteran |
| cav. | cavalry | | Lieut. | Lieutenant | | V.R.C. | Veteran Reserve Corp |
| captd. | captured | | Maj. | Major | | wd. | wounded |
| desrtd. | desterted | | m.o. | mustered out | | hon. Disd. | honorably discharged |
FORTY-SIXTH INFANTRY
(100 DAYS).
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On the 21st of April, 1864, the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, voluntarily tendered to the President of the United States an enlistment of 85,000 volunteers to serve for the period of one hundred days. Ten thousand of these were to be enlisted in the State of Iowa.
Company I of the Forty-sixth Regiment of Iowa Infantry Volunteers (100 day men) was enlisted in Cedar County, all the men excepting three being residents of the county, about fifteen or twenty men enlisting for this service in other regiments.
The Forty-sixth Regiment was ordered into quarters on the 30th day of May, 1864, and mustered into service by Capt. Chambers, U. S. A., at Davenport, Iowa, June 20, 1864. June 14, left Davenport en route for Carroll, ID., and on the 18th of June started for Memphis, Tenn., by boat. The regiment arrived at Memphis on the 19th of June, and remained there until the 27th of June, when it was ordered to guard duty on Memphis & Charleston Railroad at Collierville, Tenn., and on the 29th of the same month Companies A and I were stationed three miles west of Collierville, where they remained till the time for its dash into Memphis, when they were ordered back to Collierville, where they remained a few days. Afterwards the same two companies were sent to their former position west of Collierville, where they remained until ordered to Memphis to be sent home. The regiment was mustered out at Davenport on the 23rd day of September, 1864.
The only men of this regiment who were under fire during the service were eighteen men under Capt. W. P. Wolf, who were ambuscaded by about forty guerrillas July 24, 1864, Leonidas Brown receiving a wound which afterwards proved fatal, W. P. Wolf severely, and John Diltz slightly wounded. J. W. Thompson, John Dugan, Wm. D. Hall and F. M. Brown were taken prisoners.
[Note.-This regiment was mustered out at Davenport, Ia., Sept. 23, 1864 .]
Lieut. Col. Lorenzo D. Durbin, com. June 10, 1864.
COMPANY I.
| Capt. Wm. P. Wolf, com. June 10, 1864, wd. July 24, 1864. |
| First Lieut. Joseph W. Bull, com. June 10, 1864. |
| Second Lieut. Thos. Godden, com. June 10, 1864. |
| Sergt. Joshua T. Taylor, e. May 2, 1864. |
| Sergt. Chas. B. Harris, e. May 12, 1864. |
| Sergt. John Burns, e. May 12, 1864. |
| Sergt. Jas. W. Thompson, e. May 12, 1864, captd. July 24, 1864, near Collierville, Tenn., died March 25, 1865, at Vicksburg. |
| Sergt. Samuel P. Foy, e. May 12, 1864. |
| Sergt. Daniel Mourer, e. May 12, 1864. |
| Corp. Wm. L. Curry, e. May 2, 1864. |
| Corp. Daniel Fleagle, e. May 12, 1864. |
| Corp. T. J. Speakman, e. June 1, 1864. |
| Corp. Geo. Pinneo, e. May 2, 1864. |
| Corp. David R. Clark, e. May 18, 1864. |
| Corp. Thos. F. Bobo, e. May 18, 1864. |
| Corp. E. W. McCracken, e. May 2, 1864. |
| Musician Jacob Onstott, e. May 4, 1864. |
| Bailey, John I., e. May 18, 1864. |
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| Bagley, Jas. W., e. May 14, 1864, died at Davenport Sept. 20, 1864. |
| Brogan, Caleb, e. May 12, 1864. |
| Brown, Leonidas, e. May 18, 1864, wd. July 24, 1864, afterward died. |
| Brown, F. H., e. May 12, 1864, captd. July 24, 1864, near Collierville, Tenn. |
| Beatty, Geo. E., e. May 2, 1864. |
| Byers, Wm., e. May 21, 1864. |
| Brogan, John E., e. June 5, 1864. |
| Burnett, Geo. V., e. June 7, 1864. |
| Brigle, John, e. June 7, 1864. |
| Cornwall, Geo. F., e. May 2t 1864. |
| Daniels, Samuel L., e. May 2, 1864. |
| Diltz, Levi, e. May 4, 1864. |
| Diltz, John, e. May 4, 1864, wd. July 24, 1864, captd. and escpd. July 24, 1864. |
| Duncan, John P., e. May 25, 1864. |
| Embree, Wm. H., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Edge, Wm. H., e. May 19, 1864. |
| Elseffer, Chas., e. May 28, 1864. |
| Foy, David, e. May 16, 1864. |
| Frank, John W., e. May 19, 1864. |
| Gordon, John S., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Gary, John B., e. May 28, 1864. |
| Harden, A., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Hall, W. D., e. May 14, 1864, taken prisoner July 24, 1864, Tenn. |
| Hammond, Lewis, e. May 2, 1864. |
| Johnson, Jas. H., e. May 23, 1864. |
| Kester, Wm. E., e. May 21, 1864. |
| Kester, Benj. H., e. May 20, 1864. |
| Knott, Jos. E., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Klise, Chas. F., e. May 30, 1864. |
| Layton, Samuel, e. May 20, 1864. |
| Linsley, Ed. A., e. May 2, 1864. |
| Launtz, Jas. F., e. May 28, 1864. |
| Lightfoot, Wm., e. June 7, 1864. |
| Mulford, L. M., e. May 16, 1864. |
| Mason, Don Alonzo, e. May 16, 1864. |
| Miller, Jos. H., e. May 4, 1864. |
| McLain, John D., e. May 6, 1864. |
| McCoy, H. M., e. May 23, 1864. |
| Odell, Wm. H., e. May 24, 1864. |
| Parsons, Marsh, e. May 2, 1864. |
| Pittman, Wm., e. May 14, 1864. |
| Perry, Chas. H., e. May 19, 1864. |
| Porter, B. S., e. May 18, 1864. |
| Reigart, C. K., e. May 2, 1864. |
| Sprague, Jas., e. May 6, 1864. |
| Speakman, G., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Sterrett, Wm. H., e. May 24, 1864. |
| Scott, Daniel B., e. May 25, 1864. |
| Sanderson, Jos. F., e. May 28, 1864. |
| Smith, David K., e. June 8, 1864. |
| Thompson, John A., e. May 18, 1864. |
| Teter, Jas., e. May 20, 1864. |
| Valentine, Jacob, e. May 20, 1864. |
| Willey, C. M., e. May 20, 1864. |
| Wheeler, John M., e. May 16, 1864. |
| Ward, E. B., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Whitson, John T., e. May 12, 1864. |
| Wilcutt, H. R., e. May 5, 1864. |
| Wiggins, C. D., e. May 3, 1864. |
| Wright, Nelson, e. May 11, 1864. |
| Wooley, Newton, e. May 23, 1864. |
| Wertz, W. C, e. May 23, 1864. |
| Whitson, R. C, e. May 28, 1864. |
| Woodard, C. S., e. May 30, 1864. |
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