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HISTORICAL SKETCH
EARLY MILITARY HISTORY OF IOWA

     This early military history of the State is condensed from the elaborate work of the late Harvey Reid, which was prepared for the use of the Iowa Soldiers' Roster Board. In order to conform, as nearly as possible, with the general plan of the work adopted by the board, it became necessary to use only such portions of Mr. Reid's excellent compilation as would enable the completion of the entire work to be embraced within the limitation of space finally determined upon. The compiler, in entering upon the difficult and delicate task of condensing within the required limit the work of his friend and comrade, will be guided by an earnest desire to include, as far as may be possible, the main points of interest, leaving to the student of history the perusal of Mr. Reid's work in its entirety, when it shall have been published.

IOWA IN THE MEXICAN WAR

(The following sketch is quoted verbatim from Mr. Reid's Early Military History of the State.)

    "The great province of Texas had been left as an unpeopled waste by the Spanish conquerors of Mexico, in accordance with a definite policy to preserve it as a buffer, or neutrality zone, against the American settlements of Louisiana. Mexico achieved her independence of Spain in 1821, and the new republic at once adopted a new policy for the development of the neglected province, by inviting its colonization from the United States. This was done by giving a large land-grant to Moses Austin of Connecticut, on condition that he would establish a colony of three hundred American families within the limits of his Texas domain. This grant was confirmed to his son, Stephen Austin, with the enlarged privilege of establishing five hundred families of emigrants. Thus, by the year 1823, a nucleus of American settlements was formed in Texas, which gradually grew strong enough to overshadow the meager Mexican colonization.

    "Spanish and Spanish-American civilization has never been congenial to the Anglo- Saxon spirit, and the Mexican laws and their administration proved to be saturated with all the vices which have characterized the Spanish peoples in their attempted establishment of free institutions. The American Texans, mostly immigrants from the southern states of the Union, of which Tennessee had furnished the largest contingent,

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soon achieved a condition of semi-independence, which, in 1835, grew into armed revolt against the parent state of Mexico. Sam Houston, ex-congressman and ex-governor of Tennessee, was principal commander of the insurgent forces. The Mexicans soon destroyed all possibilities of conciliation, and forfeited the respect of mankind, by the vile massacre, at San Antonio, of the remnant of a little band of Americans, who had surrendered, after a heroic defense of the Alamo fort against eight thousand Mexicans, commanded by General Santa Anna, president of the republic. The eccentric and daring Colonel Davy Crockett, of Tennessee, was among the slain, and the resulting watch-word "Remember the Alamo!" spread fires of resentment that reached throughout the borders of the Union itself, and aroused a prejudice against Mexican manhood that can scarcely yet be said to have lost its force.

    "The massacre of the Alamo occurred on the 6th of March, 1836, and it was amply avenged the following month, when General Houston's small army at San Jacinto defeated and nearly annihilated an army of Mexicans, under Santa Anna, of more than double their numbers, and captured that leader himself. Peace followed per force; the Republic of new state was promptly acknowledged by the United States, by Great Britain, and by France, and Mexico was obliged to yield like recognition.

    "The ruling Texans, all Americans, at once sought annexation to the United States. President Van Buren, unwilling to precipitate the inevitable war with Mexico, declined the proposal. Texas, meanwhile, became the goal of a flood of emigration from the States, that, by 1844, had increased its population to about two hundred thousand souls. And, in this the last year of President Tyler's administration, the question of annexation became involved in national politics. The convention that nominated James K. Polk declared in favor of annexation, while the Whigs, who supported preceding his inauguration, took up the question in December, 1844, and, after debating the question all winter, passed a bill of annexation March 1,1845. President Tyler at once gave his assent, and the Lone Star took its place in the American constellation. The union was fully consummated on the 4th of July, 1845, when the Texan Congress formally approved the act.

    "It was not unknown to American statesmen, however, that, in this vast acquisition of territory, Uncle Sam had also annexed a boundary dispute. The original Mexican State of Texas, as its boundaries were rearranged in 1821, consisted of the former Spanish territories of Coahulia and Texas. Mexico had conceded, ten years previous to the annexation, that Texas had won her independence, but contended that the original State of Texas, only had done so, and that the State of Coahulia remained Mexican territory. The southern part of this disputed tract lay between the rivers Rio Grande del Norte and Nueces, the Mexican contention being that the Nueces formed her eastern boundary.

    "The administration at Washington agreed with the Texan authorities in holding that the merging of Texas and Coahuila into a single political entity was a fact accomplished at the time of the revolution of 1836, and that the River Rio Grande formed such a great natural boundary between nations that its significance could not be ignored. The situation became so acute when Almonte, the Mexican minister at Washington, demanded his passports, and indignantly left the country as soon as the resolution for annexation passed Congress, that military occupation of the disputed territory became a vital necessity.

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     "The commander of the Southern Division of the Western Department of the armies of the United States at this time was Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, a pioneer Kentuckian, who had won his high rank by brave and skillful management of the war with the Seminole Indians in Florida. A considerable part of the military career of General Taylor had been closely connected with the early history of Iowa Territory. In 1814, as Captain in the Seventh Infantry, and Brevet Major, he had commanded a boat expedition sent from St. Louis to retake Prairie du Chien from the British, but had been turned back from Rock Island by a superior force of British and Indians. In 1821, as Lieutenant Colonel of the First Infantry, he had been assigned to the command of Fort Snelling, on the upper Mississippi. In 1832, he was promoted to Colonel, and given command at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, where he gave aid to General Atkinson at the battle of Bad Axe, where Black Hawk's forces ere annihilated. He remained at Fort Crawford until he was ordered to Florida in 1836, and it was from the post that occurred the runaway match of his daughter, with his Adjutant, Lieutenant Jefferson Davis.

     "A proposition of the United States government, to submit the boundary claims of the two nations to arbitration, having been scornfully rejected by the Mexicans, so evident a distrust of the rightfulness of their own position by that nation strengthened President Tyler and his advisers in their determination to uphold the rights of the new American State, and in response to a petition from Texan authorities, General Taylor was ordered to advance from his headquarters at Fort Jessup, in western Louisiana, and guard the disputed district. Under these orders, the American forces were moved forward to Corpus Christi on the bay of the same name, at the mouth of the Nueces River, where a camp was established, and where, before the close of the year 1845, General Taylor gathered a little army of four thousand five hundred men.

     "With the opening of the next year it was learned that the Mexican General Arista was gathering an army in the northern part of the republic, for a counterinvasion of Texas, and General Taylor was ordered forward to the Rio Grande. In the 8th of March, 1846, he advanced from Corpus Christi to Point Isabel, on the Gulf of Mexico, established a depot of supplies there, and continued his march to the river. Fort Brown was built opposite the Mexican town of Matamoras, where General Arista assembled an army which threatened Taylor's communications, and, on the 26th of April, captured Captain Thornton's company of dragoons on the American side of the Rio Grande. Taylor, leaving a garrison in Fort Brown, fell back to Point Isabel, to strengthen the defense of that depot, and again advanced to meet Arista's superior force, which had invested Major Brown's little band of three hundred in the new, improvised fortress. The battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma followed on the 8th and 9th of May, where the blood of forty-eight dead and one hundred thirty wounded Americans was shed in defense of their country's honor, but the Mexican army which inflicted that loss was simply put out of existence. Our army commanders had relearned the lesson, first taught at San Jacinto, and confirmed in every subsequent action of the war, that no disparity of numbers in favor of the Mexicans could avail against the dash, bravery, endurance and intelligence of the sons of the United States.

     "The news of the doings on the Rio Grande carried wild excitement to all parts of the Union. Party dissensions were forgotten, the war spirit flamed out everywhere; Whigs and Democrats alike proffered aid to fill the ranks of the army. The President sent a message to Con-

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gress which was then in session, pointing out that the conflict came from the lawless acts of the Mexican soldiery, who had, without sufficient provocation, shed American blood on American soil Congress promptly responded, and, on the 11th of May, 1846, declared that 'war already existed by the act of the Mexican government.' Ten millions of dollars were promptly placed at the disposal of the government, and the President was authorized to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers. Then, again, was displayed the innate enthusiasm that the martial spirit inherited from American pioneers always develops. War meetings were held in the oldest States and the newest territories, and, in a short time, not fifty thousand alone, but nearly three hundred thousand offered themselves for service." Under the Act of Congress, approved May 13, 1846, which authorized the raising of fifty thousand volunteers, President Polk made requisition on the States and Territories for eighty-six and a half regiments, the half regiment to be raised in the District of Columbia. Iowa's quota under the requisition was one regiment of Infantry, as shown by the following proclamation of the governor:

     "The President of the United States, under a law enacted at the present session of Congress, authorizing him to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers, to serve in the war now existing between Mexico and the United States, having made a requisition upon me, as Executive of the Territory, for the enrollment of one regiment of Infantry, to be mustered into the service at such time as may be required, I hereby proclaim the fact to the citizen soldiery of Iowa, not doubting that they will respond to the call with the utmost alacrity and promptness. It is due to the character of our Territory and its inhabitants that the requisition be at once met by voluntary enlistment and that it will be so met I have entire confidence. To insure this result, I recommend that active, efficient, and immediate steps be taken in the several counties of the Territory to procure the enrollment, in good faith, of all who may be disposed to tender their services to their country, a report of the result to be transmitted to me at the earliest possible day. The aid of all good citizens, all lovers of their country, is invoked and calculated on; and it is especially enjoined on all officers holding military commissions that they be active and vigilant in their efforts to assist in raising the force called for by the President.

     "The regiment to be organized is to consist of ten companies, each company to have one Captain, one First and one Second Lieutenant, four Sergeants, four Corporals, two Musicians and sixty-four Privates. The officers, under the act of Congress of the 13th of May last, are to be appointed and commissioned in accordance with the laws of this Territory. The enlistment is to be for 'twelve months after they shall have arrived at the place of rendezvous, or to the end of the war, unless sooner discharged, according to the time for which they shall have been mustered into service'; and no man under the rank of commissioned officer, who is in years apparently over forty-five, or under eighteen, or who is not in physical strength or vigor, will be received.

     "As soon as the War Department is apprised that the enrollment is full, an officer of the army will be detailed to muster the volunteers into

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the service of the United States, after which, in all things but clothing and pay, they will take the organization of the Regular Army. 'In lieu of clothing, every non-commissioned officer and private in any company who may thus offer himself shall be entitled when called into actual service to receive in money a sum equal to the cost of clothing of a non-commissioned officer or private (as the case may be) in the regular troops of the United States.

    "The President, in thus offering us an opportunity of participating in the danger and glory of inflicting merited chastisement upon the invaders of our soil, has, I am confident, but anticipated the wishes of the great body of our people. It remains for us to prove by our acts, that he has not formed too high an estimate of our devotion to country, and that the flame of patriotism burns not less brightly in Iowa than elsewhere.

    (Signed) James Clarke.

    By the Governor:
    Jesse Williams, Secretary of the Territory.
    Executive Office, Burlington, Iowa, June 1, 1846.

    It will be noted that Iowa was still a Territory when the foregoing proclamation was issued, but the terms of service of all the troops en listing for service in the war against Mexico extended beyond the date when the State was admitted into the Union, December 28, 1846. Their history is, therefore, fully identified with that of the State of Iowa

    On June 26, 1846, the ten companies, which were to compose the regiment from Iowa, had been organized and were ready for service. In fact, two more than the requisite number had been organized, in the following order: Des Moines County, two companies; Lee County, two companies; Van Buren County, two companies; Muscatine County, one company; Louisa County, one company; Washington County, one company Dubuque County, one company; Johnson and Linn Counties, one company and Jefferson County, one company.

    The presumption was that the companies were received and accepted in the order in which they were reported to the Governor, until the requisite number was complete. Records were subsequently found showing the organization of a company in Henry County, and of another in Jackson County, while newspaper items and allusions indicate that two or three companies were organized in Dubuque County, instead of the one which was reported to the Governor. It. will thus be seen that the militant spirit was dominant among those hardy pioneers of Iowa, and that a much larger number of men offered their services than could be accepted by the President. Indeed, as the war was of comparatively short duration, and the distance to the field of hostilities so great, only one company of Iowa

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soldiers was given the opportunity to meet the enemy in actual conflict on the field of battle. A larger number, however, participated in one of the most remarkable marches ever undertaken, as will be shown in the subsequent pages of this history. Others were assigned to and faithfully performed post and garrison duty, while anxiously awaiting the order, which never came, to be sent to the front. Rosters of all the companies which have been mentioned are contained in Mr. Reid's history, but the compiler will include only those which performed actual service, either directly or indirectly, in connection with the Mexican War. Where biographical sketches of officers and enlisted men, often occupying many pages, have been found, they have been reduced to the usual paragraph opposite the names in the Roster, thus conforming to the general plan of this work.

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CAPTAIN JAMES M. MORGAN'S INDEPENDENT COMPANY OF
IOWA INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS

    This company was the premier organization of the regiment which Iowa was called upon to furnish for service in the War with Mexico. It was mustered into the service of the United States at Fort Atkinson, Iowa Territory, on July 15, 1846, by First Lieutenant Philip R. Thompson, of the First Dragoons, United States Army. The following roster is transcribed from both the muster-in and muster-out rolls of the company. The term of service was twelve months, and the company was mustered out promptly at the expiration of that period, at Fort Atkinson, July 15, 1847. Except when otherwise stated in the roster, each officer and enlisted man was mustered out with the company.

ROSTER

James McGowan Morgan. Captain. Age 42. Nativity Ohio. Date of commission July 8, 1846. Studied law in office of Senator Thomas H. Benton, at St. Louis, Mo., and came to Burlington, Iowa, in 1837. Was Quartermaster General of Iowa Territorial Militia, 1839- 41; Representative, Iowa Territorial Assembly, 1841, 1842, 1844, 1846; Speaker, 1842 and 1846. Established Burlington Telegraph 1850, which was merged into Burlington Hawkeye in 1864. Died Oct. 6, 1862, at Burlington, Iowa.

John Harrison McKenny. First Lieutenant. Age 32. Nativity Pennsylvania. Date of commission July 8, 1846. Came to Burlington, Iowa, in 1837. Assisted in getting out the first number of the Iowa Territorial Gazette, of which paper he afterwards became part owner. In October, 1842, he was elected: Sheriff of Des Moines County; was re-elected in 1844, resigning that office when he entered the service in Captain Morgan's Company. In the summer of 1847 he was on detached service, enlisting recruits for the mounted company into which Morgan's Infantry Company, or the greater portion of it, was subsequently merged. He died at Chatfield, Minn., May 23, 1878.

David Stokely Wilson. Second Lieutenant. Age 23. Nativity Ohio. Date of commission July 8, 1846. Came to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1839. Editor of Miners' Express, Dubuque, Iowa. Member of House of Representatives, 1844-46. Elected State Senator 1857-1861. Appointed Colonel Sixth Iowa Cavalry, Sept. 9, 1862. Served with distinction on the northern frontier in war with Indians. Elected District Judge in 1872. and served six years. Died April 1, 1881, at Dubuque, Iowa.

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Sylvester Greenough. Age 35. Residence Burlington. Enrolled as First Sergeant by Captain Morgan, July 8, 1846. Mustered out with company July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Sergeant in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Absalom J. Beeson. Age 25. Residence Iowa City. Enrolled as Second Sergeant July 9, 1846. . Mustered out with company July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Sergeant in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Walter Pollard Rowell Age 31. Residence Burlington, nativity New Hampshire. Enrolled as Third Sergeant July 8, 1846. Mustered out with company July 15, 1847. Reenlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

James F. Stephens. Age 21. Residence Burlington Enrolled as Fourth Sergeant July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847.

John Montgomery. Age 20. Residence Nauvoo, Ill Enrolled as First Corporal July 8, 1846, at Burlington. Died Nov. 6, 1846, at Fort Atkinson, from injuries received from being thrown from horse.

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William Anderson. Age 36. Residence Burlington. Enrolled as Second Corporal July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847.

W. S. Dollarhide. Age 20. Residence Burlington. Enrolled as Third Corporal July 8, 1846. Mustered out as Fourth Sergeant July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Sergeant in Morgan's Company of Mounted volunteers.

Grove A. Warner Age 21. Residence Burlington. Enrolled as Fourth Corporal July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847.

Andrew J. Timmons. Age 43. Enrolled as Musician July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date; in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Charles Elder. Age 18. Enrolled as Musician July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847.

John J. Adams. Age 36. Residence Burlington. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Captain's Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Edward Barr. Age 18. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out as Second Corporal July 15, 1847.

Oliver Beard. Age 36. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847, at Fort Atkinson.

Antonie Brainerd. Age 43. Enlisted as Private July 8 ,1846. Mustered out July 16, 1847, at Fort Atkinson.

John Brinkman. Age 25. Enlisted as Private at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1846. Mustered out July 16, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Captain Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

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James I. Broome. Age not given. Enlisted as Private at Dubuque July 11 1846. Discharged for disability, at Fort Atkinson, October 15, 1846.

Francis W. Buck. Age 20. Enlisted as Private July 9, 1846. Mustered out July 16, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

James R. Burke. Age 20. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Josiah M. Clemmons. Age 27. Enlisted as Private July 9, 1846. Mustered out July 16, 1847, as Third Corporal Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

David Daily. Age 21. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson, July 15, 1847.

William R. Dwyer. Age 26. Enlisted as Private at Burlington, July 8 1846. Deserted at Fort Atkinson, Sept. 1, 1846.

Hiram P. Fleetwood. Age 20. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

William Galyean. Age 20. Enlisted as Private at Dubuque July 11, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date (as William A. Galyean) in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

William Hoffman. Age 36. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

John Hughes. Age 24 Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson, July 15, 1847.

Edwin Hukill Age 24. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

John H. Hume. Age 23. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out as Private July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847 as Corporal in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Joseph Curtis Ives. Age 21. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Hurlbut Jagger. Age 20. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

John W. Kynett. Age 20. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Charles Leahr. Age 23. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Jesse Lines Age 20. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Daniel Loper. Age 21. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846 Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

John Lumley. Age 19. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847 Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Ellis C McCormick. Age 27. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1816. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Joseph Madden. Age 19. Enlisted at Burlington July 8, 1846. Killed July 5, 1847, at Fort Atkinson, by the accidental blowing up of a small magazine.

John C. Martin. Age 21. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Lewis Melosky. Age 50. Enlisted as Private at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Samuel Mitchell Age 19. Enlisted as Private July 9, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Bugler in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Richard Murray. Age 33. Enlisted as Private at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1846. Discharged Oct. 2, 1846.

Christian Myers. Age 27. Enlisted as Private July 15, 1846. Mustered out July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Isaac Oliver. Age 21. Enlisted at Private at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Titus Owens. Age 21. Enlisted at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers

Joseph Patterson. Age 42. Enlisted as Private July 11, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847 Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Nicholas Patterson. Age 34. Enlisted as Private July 11, 1846. Dishonorably discharged at Fort Atkinson Jan. 13, 1847.

Alfred E. Purcell Age 21. Enlisted at Burlington July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson as Fourth Corporal July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Elisha Ricord. Age 27. Enlisted as Private July 9, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted (as Elisha Rickard), same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Gilbert Robbins. Age 29. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

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Daniel Rorer. Age 18. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

John H. Ryan. Age 37. Enlisted as Private July 11, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Jesse Samos. Age 21. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Ebenezer Sangster. Age 23. Enlisted as Private July 9, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Corporal in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Curtis Sheffield. Age 34. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Discharged for disability at Fort Atkinson Oct. 15, 1846.

Morello W. Sleeth. Age 22. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

James H. Smith. Age 19. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

John W. Smith. Age 23. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

William P. Smith. Age 22. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

William Topp. Age not given. Enlisted as Private at Burlington July 8 1846. Drowned July 10, 1846, in Mississippi River, by falling from Steamer "Belmont," while enroute to Fort Atkinson.

William M. Traer. Age 23. Enlisted as Private July 8 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

William Vincent. Age 21. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers

Hugh Walker. Age 44. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Conrad Wareham. Age 25. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

John C. Webb. Age 29. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out as First Corporal at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Martin C. Wells. Age 22. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Henry P. Wightman Age 19. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Deserted at Fort Atkinson Oct. 16, 1846.

Calvin P. Williams. Age 28. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date. as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

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Francis E. Williams. Age 21. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Isaiah Williams (1st). Age 44. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847.

Isaiah Williams (2nd). Age 18. Enlisted as Private July 8, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, (under name of Isaiah H. Williams) as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Thomas Wright. Age 22. Enlisted as Private at Dubuque July 11, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, as Private in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

James Young. Age 26. Enlisted as Private at Dubuque July 11, 1846. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson July 15, 1847. Re-enlisted, same date, in Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

     The company had present for duty, at the time of its muster out, three commissioned officers, four Sergeants, four Corporals, one Drummer, one Fifer, and fifty-two Privates, making an aggregate of sixty-five, rank and file. The alterations and casualties since muster into the service were as follows: Two died, two deserted, two discharged for disability, two dishonorably discharged. One man had died before the company was mustered in.

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CAPTAIN JOHN PARKER'S COMPANY OF IOWA DRAGOONS
DRAGOONS VOLUNTEERS

    Captain John Parker's Company of Iowa Dragoons Volunteers was mustered into the service of the United States at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, by Brevet Major Alexander Hooe, of the Regular Army, September 9, 1846. Its term of service was for twelve months, unless sooner discharged. The company at once became part of the garrison at Fort Atkinson, of which it became an important adjunct, furnishing mounted men for scouting purposes, watching the movements of the Winnebago Indians, and endeavoring to keep them within the limits of their reservation. It was subsequently determined by the War Department, however, that the services of the company could be dispensed with, and an order was issued to muster it out of the service. The records show that the company was mustered out, by Brevet Major Hooe, at Fort Atkinson, Nov. 5, 1846. The following roster was transcribed from the muster-out roll of the company, with additional data from Mr. Reid's early history:

ROSTER

John Parker. Captain. Age 45. Residence Dubuque, nativity Kentucky. Was a soldier in the Black Hawk War. Was Captain in the Iowa Territorial Militia, organized in 1839. Died at Dubuque, Iowa, in April, 1885.

David Olmsted. First Lieutenant. Age 24. Residence Monona, Clayton County, Iowa, nativity Vermont. After his discharge he removed to Minnesota. He was the first Mayor of the City of St. Paul (1854) and held other important offices. Olmsted County, Minn., was named in his honor, in 1855. He returned to Vermont in 1857, and died at Fairfax, his native place, Feb. 2, 1861.

Thomas B. Twiford. Second Lieutenant. Age 36. Was Clerk of the Courts in Allamakee County, Iowa, in 1850. Founded the town of Chatfleld, Minn., in 1853.

Elias H. Williams. First Sergeant. Age 27. Nativity Vermont. Graduate of Yale College. Removed to Clayton County, Iowa, in 1846. He was County Judge of Clayton County, and, in 1858, was elected Judge of the Tenth Judicial District, serving in that position until 1866. In January, 1890, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa, but resigned in September of the same year. He died Aug. 20, 1891.

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Alexander D. Anderson. Second Sergeant. Age 31. No personal record obtained.

William C. Linton. Third Sergeant. Age 30. No personal record obtained.

Josiah Howard. Fourth Sergeant. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

Loren Jones. First Corporal. Age 29. No personal record obtained.

Jacob Springer. Second Corporal. Age 31. No personal record obtained.

Albert W, Kimball. Third Corporal. Age 24. Born in Michigan, and came to Iowa in 1845. No further record obtained.

John S. Lewis. Fourth Corporal Age 28, No personal record obtained.

Morrison Wheeler. Bugler. Age 31. No personal record obtained.

Edward C. Forbes. Bugler. Age 30. No personal record obtained.

John A. Tully. Farrier. Age 34. No personal record obtained.

David R. Anderson. Private. Age 25. No personal record obtained. The muster-out roll of the company shows that all the privates were enrolled at Garnavillo, Iowa Territory, by First Lieutenant Olmsted.

Thomas Armstrong. Private. Age 23. No personal record obtained.

William P. Arole. Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

Benjamin Blasdell. Private. Age 43. No personal record obtained.

Kintzing Burkhead. Private. Age 26. No personal record obtained.

Daniel Burman. Private. Age 19. No personal record obtained.

Jack Monteville Cain. Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

Patrick Cain. Private. Age 24. No personal record obtained.

Daniel Carlin. Private. Age 24. No personal record obtained.

James Carlin. Private. Age 23. No personal record obtained.

Henry Case. Private. Age 40. No personal record obtained.

Andrew J. Cooley. Private. Age 19. No personal record obtained.

Samuel Cox. Private. Age 38. No personal record obtained.

James Daniels. Private. Age 18. No personal record obtained.

Alexander Falconer. Private. Age 38. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847, in Captain J. M. Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

John J. Ficklin. Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

William Franklin. Private. Age 22. No personal record obtained.

Constantine Gallager. Private. Age 33. No personal record obtained.

John Gardner. Private. Age 31. No personal record obtained.

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Harvey Green. Private. Age 32. No personal record obtained.

George T. Griffith. Private. Age 39. No personal record obtained.

Marshall Hatfield. Private. Age 26. Born in Clinton, N. Y., in 1820. Residence, at date of enlistment, McGregor, Iowa, Served in War of the Rebellion in Company E, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, in which he enlisted Feb. 14, 1864, and from which he was honorably discharged Aug. 11, 1865. Died at Iowa State Soldiers' Home, Marshalltown, Iowa, in the fall of 1907.

George Humpheries. Private. Age 35. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847, at Fort Atkinson, in Captain J. M. Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Ezra Hurd. Private. Age 28. Nativity New York. Removed to Galena, Ill., and from there, in 1846, to Clayton County, Iowa. Died at Storm Lake, Iowa, April 22, 1909.

William Irvin. Private. Age 36. No personal record obtained.

Lemuel Johnson. Private. Age 28. No personal record obtained.

Ezekiel Jones. Private. Age 27. No personal record obtained.

Moses K. Kellogg. Private. Age 28. No personal record obtained.

Elias J. Kennedy. Private. Age 26. Re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1848, in Captain J. M. Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers, Fort Atkinson, Iowa.

Jesse Lowe. Private. Age 20. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847, in Captain Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.

Peter M. Lown. Age 28. Nativity New York. Residence, at time of enlistment, National, Clayton County, Iowa. Subsequently became an extensive farmer. Removed to Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1890, and died there May 31, 1898.

Abraham Maracle. Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

William H. Montgomery. Private. Age 28. No personal record obtained.

William Murphy. Private. Age 27. No personal record obtained.

Edward E. Oliver. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

John Overrand. Private. Age 28. No personal record obtained.

William H. Pearson. Private. Age 19. No personal record obtained.

John Putnam. Private. Age 30. No personal record obtained.

John Ransdall Private. Age 26. No personal record obtained.

Robert Reed. Private. Age 23. No personal record obtained.

Patrick Reilly. Private. Age 30. No personal record obtained.

Valorous B. Rexford. Age 32. No personal record obtained.

Robert Ross. Private. Age 27. No personal record obtained.

John Row. Private. Age 26. No personal record obtained.

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James G. Royse. Private. Age 18. No personal record obtained.

Solomon Royse. Private. Age 43. No personal record obtained.

Auson Rudsdell Private. Age 31. No personal record obtained.

William S. Scott. Private. Age 21. Residence, at enlistment, Farmersburg, Clayton County, Iowa. Nativity Vermont. Died at Willoughby, Ohio, April 3, 1895.

Henry Smith. Private. Age 26. No personal record obtained.

John Smith. Private. Age 24. No personal record obtained.

Leason Smith Private. Age 28. No personal record obtained.

Samuel Smith Private. Age 25. No personal record obtained.

Albert Springer Private. Age 26. No personal record obtained.

Samuel W. Stewart. Private Age 24. No personal record obtained.

John Thornton Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

Robert Torrance. Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

Horatio Walker. Private. Age 24. No personal record obtained.

John William Walker. Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.

Thomas B. Walker. Private. Age 31. Nativity Illinois. Residence, at enlistment, Hardin, Clayton County, Iowa. He enlisted in Company L, Sixth Iowa Cavalry, Sept. 15, 1862; was discharged for disability Aug. 9, 1864, at Fort Randall, Dakota. He had two sons in the War of the Rebellion, one of whom died in rebel prison, and the other died after exchange before reaching home.

Anderson G. Weeks. Private. Age 18. No personal record obtained.

Dudley R. W. Williams. Private. Age 21. Nativity Vermont. He subsequently became largely engaged in promoting railroad enterprises. He was living in London, England, in 1909, and was probably the last survivor of the company.

Charles Wiltsie. Private. Age 20. No personal record obtained.

Leonard Wiltsie. Private. Age 25. No personal record obtained.

Uriah Wiltsie. Private. Age 23. No personal record obtained.

     Appended to the foregoing roster is the certificate of the Mustering Officer, which reads as follows:

     "I certify on honor, that I have, at Fort Atkinson, on this Fifth day of November, 1846, carefully examined this Roll, and, as far as practicable, caused the allowances, stoppages, and remarks to be justly and properly stated, and mustered the company for discharge; and it is hereby honorably discharged from the service of the United States.

     (Signed) A. S. HOOK,
     Brevet Major, U. S. A.,
     Mustering Officer.

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CAPTAIN JAMES M. MORGAN'S COMPANY of IOWA
MOUNTED VOLUNTEERS

    It would seem to have been the part of wisdom to have retained Captain Parker's Company in the service for the full length of Its term. The Winnebago Indians had become restless, and a portion of the tribe had left its reservation, going to their old hunting grounds in Wisconsin. Another portion had gone west into the interior of Iowa, and only about one-half the tribe remained upon its original reservation. More than the available force of United States soldiers in the vicinity of the reservation was needed to again concentrate the tribe, and prepare them for removal to the new reservation which had been provided for them. It must here be noted that, at the close of the Black Hawk War, the Government had gathered up what remained of the once numerous and powerful tribe of the Winnebago Indians, and had established them upon the neutral strip in northern Iowa. The location did not prove satisfactory to the Indians. In 1846 a new treaty was made with them, by which they gave up their Iowa home in exchange for a reservation in western Minnesota. A considerable portion of the tribe objected to removal 17 to the new reservation, and, as has been shown, were in rebellion against the order which had been issued. It was the plan of the Government Agent for the tribe, J. E. Fletcher, to move the Indians to their new home in a flotilla of canoes up the Mississippi River. To this arrangement, however, the Indians demurred. Their belongings were loaded in wagons, to be hauled to the river, but the Indians threw them out as fast as they could be loaded. Finally, a detachment of troops was sent from Fort Atkinson. When the troops arrived the Indians were in a hostile frame of mind, and a conflict seemed imminent. The agent held a council with the principal chiefs, however, and provided a feast for the entire tribe. By the skillful exercise of diplomacy the threatened conflict was averted. The Indians agreed to march across to the river at Winona, under the escort of Captain James M. Morgan's Company of Iowa Mounted Volunteers.

    The cavalcade finally moved from Turkey River on June 8, 1848. The number of Indians was variously estimated from twenty-one hundred to twenty-eight hundred. They were supplied with one hundred sixty-six wagons and about sixteen hundred ponies. Papooses rode in "kyaks" or sacks of hides hung over the backs of the ponies. About five hundred tents afforded shelter for the Indians, and one hundred more were used by the soldiers and the agency and mission people. Their route lay straight north

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until the Mississippi River was struck at Wabasha Prairie, the present site of the city of Winona, Minn. Before reaching that place, the Indian agent and Captain Morgan had learned of a conspiracy between some of the Winnebago chiefs and a band of Sioux Indians, then encamped in the vicinity of Wabasha Prairie, in which the Winnebagoes had agreed to occupy a reservation adjoining that of the Sioux. and to proceed no farther. The tract of country designated had been purchased by the Winnebagoes from the Sioux, the former tribe promising to pay the latter a stipulated sum, to be derived from their government annuities. The Sioux Indians had pledged their assistance to the Winnebagoes in holding this purchase in violation of their treaty, and to unite with them in resisting the troops in any further effort to remove them to the government reservation which had been assigned to them. Upon receiving this intelligence, and becoming satisfied of its reliability, Captain. Morgan sent messengers to Forts Snelling and Crawford for reinforcements, which were promptly sent to him under command of Captains Eastman and Knowlton. The incipient revolt was crushed by this stern display of force and, upon arriving at Wabasha Prairie, the savage wards of the government and their belongings were loaded in detachments upon barges, and towed by steamboats, as they arrived from below, to the Falls of St. Anthony, where they were again concentrated. The delay caused by this change of transportation occupied about a month.

    The land march was resumed from the Falls, and, on July 30, 1848, at the mouth of the Watab River, near Sauk Rapids, on the Mississippi, the new reservation was reached. The distance traveled had been three hundred ten miles. A site for the agency buildings and mission was selected on Long Prairie, and Captain Morgan's Company remained to keep order during the construction of the necessary buildings. The new reservation seemed very satisfactory to the Indians, and to General Fletcher, their agent, who says, in his annual report, under date of Oct. 4, 1848: "The country for the Winnebagoes was judiciously selected. It is the best location that could have been procured for them west of the Mississippi River. They are well satisfied with the country, and look upon it as their permanent home."

    About the first of September, Captain Morgan received orders to return to Fort Atkinson with his company. They marched to Fort Snelling, and were thence conveyed by steamboat to McGregor's Landing, where they arrived on September 6th. A short march brought them to their old quarters, where they were mustered out of service on the 11th day of September, 1848, and at once dispersed to their respective homes. While this gallant company had not realized its expectations, of being sent to Mexico to engage in conflict with its country's foes, it had served honorably and bravely in the field to which it has been assigned. Its officers and men had

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performed every duty which had been required of them. Those members of the company who had first enlisted in the infantry had given longer service than had been required of any other Iowa Volunteers who had originally enrolled for the Mexican War, their entire length of service having been two years and fifty-eight days. The following is a complete roster of the company:

ROSTER

James McGowan Morgan. Captain. Age 43. Residence Burlington Iowa Commissioned by Ansel Briggs, Governor of Iowa, July 15, 847, and mustered into the service of the United States for during the War with Mexico, at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, on same date. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson, Sept. 13, 1848. Had commanded Infantry Company, stationed at Fort Atkinson, between the dates July 15, 1846, and July 15, 1847.

John Harrison McKenny. First Lieutenant. Age 33. Residence Burlington Iowa. Commissioned, by Governor Ansel Briggs, July 15, 1847, and mustered into the service of the United States, same date, at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, for during the War with Mexico. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson, Sept. 13, 1848.

David Stokely Wilson. Second Lieutenant. Age 24. Residence Dubuque Iowa. Commissioned, by Governor Ansel Briggs, July 15, 1847, and or. same date mustered into the service of the United States, at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, for during the War with Mexico. Mustered out at Fort Atkinson Sept. 13, 1848.

Walter Pollard Rowell First Sergeant. Age 32. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company and appointed First Sergeant July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

W. S. Dollarhide. Second Sergeant. Age 22. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company and mustered as Second Sergeant July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Josiah H. Clemmons. Third Sergeant. Age 29. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company and mustered as Corporal July 15, 1847. Promoted Third Sergeant Jan. 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John H. Hume. Fourth Sergeant. Age 25. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company and mustered as Corporal July 15, 1847. Promoted Fourth Sergeant April 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Thomas Cox, Jr. First Corporal Age 22. Enlisted and mustered as Private. Promoted Corporal Jan. 1, 1848. Son of Colonel Thomas Cox who had served as an Illinois officer in the War of 1812, and subsequently became one of the most prominent citizens of Iowa Territory serving a number of terms in the Territorial Assembly of which he was elected Speaker in its Third Session. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

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John Cadwallader. Second Corporal Age 24. Enlisted and mustered as Private July 15, 1847. Promoted Corporal Jan. 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John C. Martin. Third Corporal Age 20. Enlisted as Private July 15, 1847. Promoted Corporal Jan. 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

George W. Hess. Fourth Corporal Age 32. Enlisted as Private and promoted Corporal April 1, l 848. He was the only non- commissioned officer who had not belonged to Captain Morgan's Infantry Company Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Joseph Roth. Bugler. Age 32. Enlisted April 1, 1848, and mustered in same date. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Samuel Mitchell Bugler. Age 20. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15; 1847, and mustered in same date. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Horace Salter. Age 24. Enlisted Feb. 21, 1848, and mustered same date. This soldier kind served with Colonel Doniphan in the Mexican War, and had participated in the battle of Sacramento He was mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John J. Adams Age 38. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William Anderson. Age 38. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Silas H. Axtell Age 31. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

George W. Barnes. Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Absalom J. Beeson. Age 26. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Discharged for disability March 31, 1848.

Enos F. M. Blair. Age 23. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John Brinkman. Age 27. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 1l, 1848.

John W. Brinsmade. Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Francis W Buck. Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 5, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11. 1848.

James R. Dorke. Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John B. Carpenter. Age 21. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

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Alexander G. Cram. Age 23. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

H. G. Fairbanks. Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Alexander Falconer. Age 39. Private. Enlisted July 16, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Hiram P. Fleetwood. Age 23. ,Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 16, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Joshua H. Flinn. Age 25. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

David Frazier. Age 34. Private. Enlisted July 16, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Martial Fry. Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John L. F. Gallaher. Age 27. Private. Enlisted July 16, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Silas Galliher. Age 21. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William A. Galyean. Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Jeremiah Gehon. Age 20. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Erastus C. Gordon. Age 22. Private. Enlisted May 25, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John M. Graves. Age 18. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Sylvester Greenough. Age 36. Re-enlisted from Sergeant in Infantry Company, and mustered in as Sergeant July 16, 1847. Reduced to Private Dec. 31, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Henry Groesbeck. Age 23. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Charles P. Hamlin. Age 19. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

H. H. Harliss. Age 23. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Phineas Harris. Age 18. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

George F. Hatch. Age 19. Private. Enlisted Jan. 31, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

N. W. Hatch. Age 24. Private. Enlisted Jan. 17, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

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Thomas Hilyard. Age 23. Private. Enlisted June 10, 1848 Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

George Humphreys. Age 25. Private. Enlisted July l 5, 1847 Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Joseph Curtis Ives. Age 23, Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Nelson Marks Ives. Age 29. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William Jones. Age 30. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Elisha J. Kennedy. Age 37. Private. Enlisted Jan. 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Ichabod Kimball Age 32. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Thomas B. Lane. Age 30. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Herman Legion Age 23. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26. 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Alonzo Livermore. Age 25. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. l 1, 1848.

Daniel Loper . Age 22. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William Loper. Age 24. Enlisted Jan. 26, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Jesse Lowe. Age 21. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John Lumley. Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

E. C. McCormick. Age 29. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William McCraney. Age 21. Private. Enlisted Feb. 14, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Albert S. McKinley . Age 17. Private. Enlisted June l0, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

S. P. McNeill Age 21. Private. Enlisted Jan. 26, l848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Louis Melosky. Age 51. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Discharged for disability April 30. 1848.

Christian Myers. Age 29. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Isaac Oliver. Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

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Peter Olson. Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Titus C. Owens. Age 22. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Died at Fort Atkinson Oct. 29, 1847.

Stephen J. Palmer. Age 20. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

James Parson. Age 23. Private. Enlisted July. 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Henry Patterson. Age 21. Private. Enlisted Feb. 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Joseph Patterson. Age 43. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Discharged for disability April 30, 1848.

M. T. Patterson . Age 19. Private. Enlisted Jan. 21, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

AIfred E. Purcell Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William E. Reed. Age 21. Private. Enlisted June 10, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Michael Reilly. Age not given. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Discharged Jan. 1, 1848.

Elisha Ricord. Age 28. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Discharged Jan. 1, 1848.

Ashley C. Riggs. Age 19. Private. Enlisted Jan. 21, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Daniel Rorer. Age 19. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Ebenezer Sangster. Age 24. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Discharged Jan. 1, 1848.

Thaddeus Seamans (or Seamands). Age 21. Private. Enlisted Jan. 21 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John I. Shaff Age 21. Private. Enlisted July l5, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Philip E. Shaver. Age 19. Private. Enlisted Jan. 21, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Morello W. Sleeth. Age 23. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John M. Slidell Age 21. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William Snyder. Age 24. Private. Enlisted Jan. 2l, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Mortimer Sperry. Age 22. Private. Enlisted Jan. 1, 1848. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

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Peter Tench (or Fench). Age 31. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Andrew A. Timmons. Age 44. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Discharged for disability April 30, 1848.

William M. Traer. Age 25. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John Tully. Age 35. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

William Vincent. Age 21. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Albert G. Walling. Age 21. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Conrad Wareham. Age 26. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Hiram G. Wasson Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

John C. Webb Age 29. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

George W. C. Weisgarber (or Wisegarver). Age 26. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Calvin P. Williams. Age 27. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Daniel D. Williams. Age 24. Private. Enlisted July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

Isaiah H. Williams. Age 18. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Enrolled as "Isaiah Williams 2d." Mustered out with Company Sept. 11 1848.

Thomas Wright. Age 24. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

James Young. Age 27. Private. Re-enlisted from Infantry Company July 15, 1847. Mustered out with Company Sept. 11, 1848.

SUMMARY

Died	1
Discharged	7
Absent on furlough	1
Aggregate number present at muster out	92

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CAPTAIN GUTHRIE'S COMPANY K, FIFTEENTH U. S. INFANTRY

    It will be noted that but three of the ten Iowa companies which had been called for by the President had been mustered into the service of the United States. It will also be noted that the three companies, instead of being sent to Mexico, had been kept on garrison duty at Fort Atkinson. While the explanation given for the recruiting of a new company in Iowa is not very clear, it seems to have been organized under special authority from the War Department, and assigned to the Fifteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, and was designated as Company K, of that regiment. Major Frederick D. Mills, who had been Captain of the first company raised under the call of the President (but which was not mustered) was commissioned Major of the Fifteenth Infantry. The selection of the commissioned officers of Company K was conceded to Major Mills. This fact, and his own appointment as Major, suggests a plausible theory that the organization of the company was but a belated act of Justice to the men and officers of the first Iowa company to offer its services under the call of the President. That company, as has been shown, was superseded by Captain James M. Morgan's Company of Iowa Infantry Volunteers, which completed its full term of service at Fort Atkinson, Iowa. The new company was promptly organized, and was conveyed from its rendezvous at Fort Madison, Iowa, by steamboat to New Orleans, and thence by ocean steamer to Vera Cruz, where it Joined the regiment. From the day it landed in Mexico to the end of the war, the company, with its regiment, was constantly engaged in active service. It participated in numerous battles and skirmishes, In all of which it acquitted itself with distinguished gallantry. Its losses, as shown by the subjoined roster, were heavy, constituting forty per cent of its aggregate number. Nearly every one of Its officers received both special mention and brevet promotions for gallant and meritorious conduct on the battlefield. Among those killed or mortally wounded in battle were Major Mills and Captain Guthrie. The Third General Assembly of Iowa, In session at Iowa City, in 1850, gave permanent evidence of Its appreciation of those gallant officers, by bestowing, upon one of' the new counties, organized at that session, the name of Mills, and, upon another, the name of Guthrie. In Mr. Reid's early military history, from which this brief sketch Is condensed the movements and operations of the company are described with great particularity and many incidents, showing its splendid conduct under fire

Page 810 are given. Copies of official reports are quoted, and the record of the company is shown to have been a most highly honorable one, reflecting great credit upon the State.

    It has been the duty and pleasure of the compiler to prepare a sketch of each of the military organizations of the State of Iowa which, at any time, rendered active service in the wars in which the United States has been involved, and he regards it as but a simple statement of truth to say that, in the long line of brilliant achievement and faithful service, Company K, of the Fifteenth Regiment, United States infantry, established a record of such a high standard of excellence as to prove a worthy example and inspiration to each of the Iowa organizations which followed it in the succeeding wars.

     The muster roll of the company is copied verbatim from Mr. Reid's history. While it does not comport fully with the general plan of this work, the compiler could not see his way clear to undertake a condensation of the more lengthy paragraphs, as they describe so fully the service performed, together with a summarized statement of the subsequent history of the soldier, with notes giving the source from which the information was obtained. He therefore determined to make a notable exception to the rule, in the case of the roster and record of this one company, Iowa's sole representative upon the battlefields of Mexico.

ROSTER

Edwin Guthrie. Captain. Residence Fort Madison, Iowa Commissioned by President James K. Polk March 8, 1847. Assigned to Company K, Fifteenth Infantry, April 9, 1847. Wounded in the skirmish at Lahoya Pass, on the road between Vera Cruz and Perote, June 20, 1847. Died at Perote, July 20, 1847. Captain Guthrie was born at Smyrna, New York, Dec. 11, 1806, where he married Adeline Jewett Sept. 7, 1827. He was a manufacturer of chemicals and a distiller; at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., and removed to Iowa about 1840, where he became Warden of the Penitentiary at Fort Madison, 1843- 1845. (Edwin Guthrie, grandson, Washington, D. C., Nov. 15, 1909.)

George Washington Bowie. First Lieutenant, U. S. Infantry, March 8, 1847. Assigned to Company K, Fifteenth Infantry, April 9, 1847. Captain, July 8, 1847. Brevet Major for gallant and meritorious conduct at, Contreras and. Churubusco.. Mustered out with the Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Kentucky. Colonel, Fifth California Infantry, Nov. 8, 1861. Brevet Brigadier General of United States Volunteers, March 13,'1865. Honorably mustered out Dec. 14, 1864. Native of Maryland. It has now been ascertained when he came to Iowa, but he settled in Burlington was a lawyer. he was elected to the Constitutional Convention which met in 1846, and was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives the same year. He took an active part in the organization of a company in Burlington, for the proposed Iowa

Page 811 regiment for the Mexican War, and was First Lieutenant of the Company under Captain F. D. Mills. He returned to Burlington after the war, but emigrated to California in 1850. He was a candidate for Governor of California on the ticket of the American party, in 1857. Became Colonel of the Fifth California Infantry Nov. 9, 1861, to succeed Colonel John Kellogg, an officer of the Third Artillery, U. S. Army, who resigned on that date. He commanded the District of Arizona, with headquarters at Franklin, Texas, where he was mustered out Dec. 14 1864. Died in an accident March l5, 1882. [Heitman's Historical Register, U. S. C. Reverend William Salter, D. D., Burlington, Iowa California Historical Society, by Irving B. Richman; Rebellion Records, Vol. XXXIV.]

John R. Bennett. Second Lieutenant, U. S. infantry, March 8, 1847. Assigned to Company K, Fifteenth Infantry, April 9, 1847. Brevet First Lieutenant Sept. 13, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Chapultepec. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Kentucky. Captain of Third Minnesota Infantry, Oct. 25, 1861. Resigned Feb. 27, 1862. Was a native of Maryland, and an early settler at Bloomington, (now Muscatine) Iowa Territory. He was Captain of a company organized at Bloomington for the proposed Iowa Regiment of Infantry for the Mexican War. Soon after his discharge he removed to Chatfield, Minn. In the Civil War he raised a company at that place for the Third Minnesota Infantry, but resigned after a few months' service. His subsequent career has not been fully ascertained, but he is said to have died in Mexico. [Heitman's Historical Register, U. S. A.; Dr. Warren Upham, Secretary of Minnesota Historical Society; S. S. McKenny, Chicago.]

Francis O. Beckett. Second Lieutenant, U. S. Infantry, March 8, 1847. Assigned to Company K, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, April 9, 1847. First Lieutenant May 6, 1848. Brevet First Lieutenant Aug. 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico. Temporarily transferred from the company, at Puebla, July 7, 1847. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. He was born in the State of Maine and became a resident of Burlington, Iowa. His work in recruiting for the company seems to have been entirely at Keosauqua, Van Buren County. Persistent inquiries among the oldest settlers of Burlington and Van Buren County have failed to reveal anything of his personal history, and he must have left Iowa very soon after the Mexican War. [Heitman's Historical Register, U. S. A. Bloomington Herald, summer of 1846.]

Daniel French. Lieutenant. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, Second Lieutenant, Fifteenth Infantry, April 9, 1847. First Lieutenant Aug. 20, 1847. Brevet Captain Sept. 13, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Chapultepec. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Second Lieutenant, Sixty-fifth Ohio Infantry, Oct., 1861. Captain, Nov., 1861. Lieutenant Colonel, Nov. 30, 1861. Colonel, One Hundred Twentieth Ohio, Oct. 17, 1862. [Heitman's Historical Register, U. S. A.] The records are obscure as to just when this officer was assigned to Company K, but, from the roster in Iowa Historical Record, Vol. 1, it would appear to be when he was promoted First Lieutenant, Aug. 20, 1847.

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Abel W. Wright. Lieutenant. Born In Connecticut. Appointed from Wisconsin, Second Lieutenant, U. S. Infantry, March 6, 1847. Assigned to Company K, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, April 9, 1847. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Henry E. Vrooman. First Sergeant. (Iowa Historical Record list, recorded as private.) Enrolled April 6, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Died Sept. 5, 1847, (private) at Hospital, Puebla, Mexico, of ordinary disease.

Walter W. Hudson. Second Sergeant. (Iowa Historical Record list, First Sergeant.) Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie Last paid April, 1848, Roll Following is his military record in Heitman's Historical Register: Born in Kentucky. Appointed from the army. Private, Sergeant and First Sergeant, Fifteenth Infantry April 12, 1847, to July 18, 1848. Brevet Second Lieutenant, First Infantry, June 28, 1848. Second Lieutenant March 1, 1849. Died April 19, 1850, of wounds received April 7, 1850, with Indians, near Laredo, Texas Walter Warder Hudson was born in Mason County, Ky., June 11, 1823. His mother was a sister of Jesse R. Grant, father of General U. S. Grant. His promotion to a Lieutenancy in the Regular Army, by President Polk, was in recognition of his gallantry in action, being credited with having carried the flag over the walls at Chapultepec. The engagement with the Indians, in which he was wounded, was at Fort Hudson, on the Rio Grande River, in Texas, which fort was named in his honor. He died at Fort Mclntosh, near Laredo, Texas. (Appleton's CycL Amer. Biog. )

John C. Abercrombie. Third Sergeant. (Iowa Historical Record list, First Sergeant ) Enrolled April 7, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Born in Perry County, Penn., Oct. 30, 1823. Parents removed to Miami County, Ohio, in 1833. He came to Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1841, and settled at Burlington as a tailor. Enlisted for the Texan War, under Captain Hight, and went to New Orleans. The war had ended in Texas, the Company was disbanded at New Orleans, and he returned to Burlington. His enlistment In Company K, of the Fifteenth, being credited to Keosauqua is not understood, as his home was at Burlington. Returned to Burlington after the Mexican War and adopted the profession of dentistry. At the opening of the Civil War he was commissioned, by Governor Kirkwood, First Lieutenant of Company E, First Iowa Infantry, and discharged on the expiration of the three months' service of that regiment. On the organization of the Eleventh Iowa Infantry, he was commissioned Major of that regiment. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, but the strength of the regiment did not admit of his being commissioned as Colonel He became totally blind in 1869, and drew full pension of $72 per month for that disability. Died at Burlington. [Biographical Album, Des Moines County, Iowa, 1889, page 206.]

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Fabrian Brydolf. Fourth Sergeant. Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Wounded at the battle of Churubusco. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Born In Ostergothland, Sweden, Nov. 28, 1819. Son of Anders G. Brydolf, a prominent Lutheran minister. Educated to the profession of landscape painter and lived an artist's life until he emigrated to America in 1841. He located at Cleveland, Ohio, where, finding no encouragement for art, he took to sign and other painting. Came to Burlington, Iowa, in 1846, as interpreter for a party of Swedes. Returned to Burlington after the muster out of his regiment. Served in the Civil War as Captain, Company 1, Sixth Iowa Infantry. Lost his right arm at the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Twenty-fifth Iowa Infantry, Sept. .,1862. Resigned to accept position as Lieutenant Colonel, Second Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps. Nov. 1, 1863. Mustered out July 1, 1865. After two years' suffering from paralysis and loss of eyesight, he died at Burlington, Iowa, Jan. 25, 1897. [Nella J. Brydolf, daughter, Burlington, Iowa; Burlington Daily Hawkeye, January 26, 1897; Iowa Adjutant General's Reports.]

Isaac W.

Griffiths. First Corporal (Iowa Historical Record list, Sergeant.) Enrolled May 1, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mr. Griffiths was discharged Oct. 27, 1847, for disability from wounds received at Churubusco Aug. 20, 1847. (Right arm amputated.) He was born at Farmington, Trumbull County, Ohio. Removed to Lee County, Iowa, in 1839. was Captain in the Territorial Militia from March 30, 1843. Member of the Iowa Legislature 1848-49. Bailiff in the Supreme Court of Iowa Territory 1839 to 1847. Register U. S. Land Office, at Des Moines, April, 1858, to 1861, Sheriff of Polk County. Iowa, 1861 to 1863. Coroner of Polk County, Iowa, twenty consecutive years, 1873 to 1893. Door-keeper U. S. Senate, three years, 1850 to 1853. Died at Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1897. [Aldrich Autograph Collection, Iowa Historical Department, Des Moines, Iowa. ]

Alexander Caldwell. Second Corporal (Iowa Historical Record list, Sergeant.) Enrolled April 3, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

John Moyes. Third Corporal (Iowa Historical Record list, Sergeant.) Enrolled April 6, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Isaiah B. Taylor. Fourth Corporal Enrolled April 3, 1847, at Fort Madison. Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. (He was generally known In the company as "Zack" Taylor.) S. D. Thompson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, survivor.]

Henry B. Anderson. Private. Enrolled April 17, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa by Lieutenant Beckett. Left sick at Hospital at Puebla, Mexico, Aug. 9, 1847. Died October 9, 1847.

Jesse B. Barber. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

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Daniel Bennett. Private. Enrolled April 17, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett Discharged Jan. 17, 1848, at Puebla, Mexico.

William Benton. Private. Enrolled April 6, l847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Left sick at Hospital at New Orleans, La., July 6, 1848. Discharged Aug. 17, 1848 One of the squad enlisted by Thomas J. McKean, Marion, Iowa, ex-Lieutenant U. S. Army. He lived in Marion and engaged in harness making. After the war he removed to Illinois, and is said to have served in an Illinois Regiment in the Civil War. [ S D. Thompson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.]

Samuel Bird. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Warren W. Bixby. Private. Enrolled May 1, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Died Oct. 22, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

Allen Blair. Private. Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died July 13, 1847, in Hospital, at Perote, Mexico.

George W. Briggs. (Iowa Historical Record list, Biggs.) Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Oct. 8, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico. Residence in Pittsburg, Van Buren County, Iowa. Born in New York State. Son of Uriah Biggs, a pioneer surveyor and commissioner of the Des Moines River Improvement. He was nineteen years of age when he enlisted. Came to Iowa in 1839. [Hon. George C. Duffield, Pittsburg, Iowa.]

Isaiah Bringham. Private. Enrolled April 23, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Nathan Brown. Private. Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died July 23, 1847, at Perote, Mexico.

Daniel Bruner. Private. Enrolled April 20, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Died Aug. 8, 1847, at Perote, Mexico.

Peter B. Busurt. Private. Enrolled April 17, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Died Sept. 3, 1847, at Perote, Mexico

John Butler. Private. Enrolled April 7, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Left sick in Hospital, at Perote, Mexico, July 2, 1847. Died Aug. 3, 1847.

Samuel Carley. Private. Enrolled April 22, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Died Nov. 1, 1847, in City of Mexico.

Stephen H. Carman. Private. Enrolled April 21, 1847, at Galena, Ill, by Lieutenant Hall [S. D. Thompson says that this soldier and two others from Galena (Finch and Munsen) were enlisted at Muscatine by Thomas J. McKean.] Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

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David Casady. Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Oct. 26, 1847, in Hospital, at Chapultepec, Mexico

Oscar Cave. Private. Enrolled April 28, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Andrew J. Cavern. Private. Enrolled April 16, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Sept. 1, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

James W. Chambers. Private. Enrolled April 23, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died July 29, 1847, at Vera Cruz, Mexico.

James Christian. Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Left sick at Vera Cruz June 2, 1847. No further record found.

Swein Clark. Private. Enrolled April 13, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by. Lieutenant Beckett. Died Sept. 23, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

Stephen S. Cooper. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Was a member of the Des Moines County Volunteers, No. 1, organized at Burlington; Iowa, with Frederick D. Mills as Captain.

Thomas Courtney. Private. Enrolled April 23, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Residence five miles from Marion, Linn County, Iowa. One of the squad enlisted by Thomas McKean Left sick in Hospital at Perote, Mexico, July 2, 1847. Died Aug. 2, 1847.

James L. Cox. Private. Enrolled April 23, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died July 31, 1847, at Perote, Mexico.

John M. Cresswell Private. (Iowa Historical Record list, Corporal) Enrolled April 23, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Daniel W. Crowder. Private. Enrolled April 21, 1847 at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Killed Sept. 10, 1847, at Piedad, Mexico, by cannon shot, while on picket guard.

Edwin R. Cutler. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Born in Boston, Mass., in 1816. Brother of Elisha Cutler, who was the first Secretary of State of the State of Iowa, in 1846. Came to Iowa in 1841. Treasurer of Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1849. Recorder in 1851. Emigrated to Oregon in 1852, where he was frozen to death on a flatboat on the Columbia River, which became frozen in the stream. [George C. Duffield, Pittsburg, Iowa; Capt. V. P. Twombly, Des Moines, Iowa.]

Charles D. Davis. Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. [Thompson says he was one of McKean's recruits, and lived in Linn County after the war.]

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Edmund Derrick. Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Dismissed by order of General Court-martial, held April 12, 1848.

James Douglass. Private. Enrolled April 13, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died Dec. 22, 1847, at Castle Chappellain, Mexico.

Robert Douglass. Private. Enrolled April 15, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

James Drake. Private. Enrolled April 1, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. [Thompson says he was the youngest man in the company. ]

Stewart W. Drurey. Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died Aug. 13, 1847, New Orleans Barracks, La.

George W, Dyer, Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Aristiades Elkins. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Died Sept. 14, 1847, in Hospital, Puebla, Mexico.

Edward Ellis. Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Oct. 20, 1847, in City of Mexico. [It appears by letter from E. R. Cutler, printed in Dubuque Miners' Express, March 29, 1848, that Ellis lived in Davis County, Iowa.]

Isaac Faulkner. Private. Enrolled April 16, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. The termination of his service in the Company is not made clear on the official muster roll The entry is: "Arrested as a deserter In Jefferson Barracks May 2, 1847," but what disposition was made of the case is not shown.

James Finch,. Private. Enrolled April 21, 1847, at Galena, Ill, by Lieutenant Hall [Said to be enlisted at Muscatine, Iowa, by Thomas J. McKean.] Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Thomas Fisher. Private. Enrolled April 22, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. Died Oct. 7, 1847, in City of Mexico.

Samuel Foulton. Private. Enrolled April 6, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrle. Died July 13, 1848, on board steamer "Northern Light,"

Thomas Fourgerty. (Iowa Historical Record list, Fogerty.) Private. Enrolled April 9, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died Sept. 17, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

James H. Freeman, Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Discharged on certificate of disability Feb. 4, 1848.

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Thomas L. Gannon. Private. (Iowa Historical Record list, Corporal Enrolled April 2, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Elijah P. Gillespie. Private. ( Iowa Historical Record list, Corporal) Enrolled April 20, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. His father was Probate Judge of Van Buren County, Iowa.

James Glover. Private. Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Oct. 24, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico [George C. Duffleld says that he knew the man, and makes the following note: "Bright young Yankee; much respected; went to Mexico from Van Buren County, never to return; relatives all dead."] He came from Ohio about 1843, and lived at Pittsburg, Iowa.

George A. Gray. Private Enrolled April 25, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Residence Marion, Linn County, Iowa. One of squad enlisted by Thomas J. McKean. Age, when enlisted, about twenty-one. Born in Pennsylvania. Enlisted in the Civil War as First Sergeant, Company H, Twentieth Iowa Infantry, July 26, 1862. Promoted to Sergeant Major Oct. 20, 1862. Promoted to Captain, Company H, Dec. 20, 1862. Mustered out at Clinton, Iowa, July 8, 1865 [S. D. Thompson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Iowa Adjutant General's Reports.]

George Grigsby. Private. Enrolled April 3, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Hosea W. Groom. Private. Enrolled April 15, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Came to Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1838, from Ohio. Returned there after the close of the war. Died at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1893. [George C. Duffleld, Pittsburg, Iowa.]

John Haft. Private. Enrolled May 13, 1847, at Baton Rouge, La., by Captain Guthrie. Died July 28, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

William B. Hampton. Private. Enrolled April 25, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Died Nov. 13, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico. Lived at Ivanhoe, Linn County, Iowa. Was one of Thomas J. McKean's recruits.

Philip J. Hanes. Private. Enrolled May 1, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa by Captain Guthrie. Died Oct. 24, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

James Henness Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Stephen Hoag Private. Enrolled April 21, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. The official roll contains entry in pencil, "See Certificate 12762," but the entry is not filled out. It appears, however, by the letter of E. R. Cutler, previously cited, that Stephen Hoag was a resident of Davis County and was one of the soldiers who died In Mexico.

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Jacob Hogan Private. Enrolled April 27, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa. by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. [Thompson says he was a tall man about sixty years old. ]

John Howard. Private. :Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Left sick in Hospital, City of Mexico, Feb. l, 1848. Discharged July 28, 1848.

William Hunt. Private. Enrolled April 27, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett, Died June 22, 1847, at Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Henry McC. Jewett. Private, Enrolled April 3, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

London S. Johnson Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, l848 at Covington, Ky.

Lewis W Jones. Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Sept. 29, 1847. Record does not show where he died.

David Kenoyer Private. Enrolled April 20, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Josiah Lane Private. Enrolled April 16, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Sent sick to Vera Cruz Hospital June 11, 1847. No further record found.

John Levitt. Private. Enrolled April 15, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Died Aug. 25, 1847, in Hospital, Puebla, Mexico.

William Litton. Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Oct. 11, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

Daniel Lloyd. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Discharged Feb. 4, 1848, on certificate of disability.

James T. Magee. Private. Enrolled April 16, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Henry M. Manfount (Iowa Historical Record list, Montfort ) Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died Oct. 29, 1847, in Hospital, City of Mexico.

Jason Mechum Private. Enrolled April 21, 1841, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died July 7, 1847, at Vera Cruz, Mexico.

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Seth Millington. Private. Enrolled April 15, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Severely wounded at the battle of Chapultepec Sept. 13, 1847. Discharged Jan. 14, 1848, for wounds received. Resided at Keosauqua, Van Buren County, and married there when he enlisted. Returned to Iowa after discharge. Farmed several years, then emigrated to Oregon, where he died. He was Clerk of the District Court for four years. (1848-1852,) also served as County Surveyor. [George C. Duffield, Pittsburg, Iowa; Hon. Robert Sloan, Keosauqua, Iowa.]

Philip S. Moore . Private (Iowa Historical Record list, Musician.) Enrolled April 22, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died July 4, 1848, on passage from Vera Cruz to New-Orleans.

William Moore. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Lafayette Munsell Private Enrolled April 21, 1847, at Galena, Ill, by Lieutenant Hall (Said to be enlisted at Muscatine by Thomas J. McKean.) Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Gushorn C. Norris. Private. Enrolled April 6. 1847, at Fort Madison Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848 at Covington, Ky.

Grosvenor Norton. Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Fort Madison Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848 at Covington, Ky.

Eli Parr. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Humphrey B. Perry. Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Keosauqua Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Sept. 25, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

John Perry. Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett, Died Sept. 27, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico. Lived at Kilbourne, Van Buren County, Iowa. Son of a pioneer merchant. [George G. Duffield, Pittsburg, Iowa. ]

Joseph J. Pettijohn. (Iowa Historical Record list, John J. Pettyjohn.) Private. Enrolled April 13, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Discharged Nov. 30, 1847, on surgeon's certificate of disability.

David Cook Powell Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

William Cook Powell Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4 1848, at Covington, Ky.

William Reece. (Iowa Historical Record list, William Reed and in official records of casualties of battle of Churubusco spelled the same way.) Enrolled April 1, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Killed in action Aug. 20, 1847, Churubusco, Mexico.

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Milton E. Reynolds . Private. Enrolled April 27, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died Sept. 10, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

Jacob Rhoades, Jr. Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett Died Sept. 11, 1847; place not ascertained.

James Rhodes. Private. Enrolled April 21, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa. by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Oct. 2, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

John W. Roberts . Private. Enrolled April 26, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Killed in action Aug. 20, 1847, battle of Churubusco, Mexico.

Thomas W. Rogers . Private. Enrolled April 17, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Aug. 18, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

Andrew R. Sausman Private Enrolled April 25, 1847, at Fort Madison. Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. One of the squad enlisted by Thomas J. McKean Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Residence, Marion, Iowa. Removed to California in the early 50's, and became a merchant and died there. [S. D. Thompson. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. l

Bennett S. Shang. Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4. 1848, at Covington, Ky.

John R. Snyder. Private. Enrolled April 9, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Deserted Nov. 22, 1847, from Hospital, at New Orleans.

Samuel E. Spain. Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died Nov. 29, 1847, at Chapultepec, Mexico.

Theodore B. Sparks. Private. Enrolled April 10, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Died Sept. 25, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico.

Nathaniel H. Sprague. Private. Enlisted May 1, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Left sick in Hospital at Puebla, Mexico. No further record found. [Letter from E. R. Cutler, previously cited, lists him among the deaths. ]

William Stanley. Private. Enrolled April 9, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848. at Covington, Ky. [An old sailor, a big fellow, lived in Linn County, Iowa. S. D. Thompson.]

Harlon Stevens. Private. Enrolled April 13, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Died Aug. 30, 1847, at Puebla, Mexico [Thompson says he was an old man about sixty-five years of age.]

Egbert Stone. Private. Enrolled April 23, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Died May 16, 1848, at Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Henry W. Story Private. Enrolled April 17, 1747, at Keosauqua, Iowa, by Lieutenant Beckett. Killed in action Sept. 13, 1847. at Chapultepec, Mexico.

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Rufus Summerlin. Private. Enrolled April 12. 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa by Lieutenant Beckett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848. at Covington, Ky.

Lewis Swinhart. Private. Enrolled April 21, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. [ Pennsylvania- German; died some time after the war. S. D. Thompson.]

Samuel D. Thompson. Private. Enrolled April 25, 1847, at Fort Madison Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. He was one of the squad enlisted by Thomas J. McKean. Residence Marion, Linn County, Iowa. Born in Rockport, Ind., April 16, 1820. Came to Iowa in October, 1842. Took charge of Colonel Morgan's wagon during his service. Served in the Civil War in Third Iowa Battery Light Artillery. Living in 1909, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a daughter.

William Wagoner. Private. Enrolled April 15, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky. Lived at Iowa. City after the war.

West Walker. Private. Enrolled April 3, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4, 1848, at Covington, Ky.

Thomas C. White. Private. Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. Mustered out with Company Aug. 4. 1848, at Covington, Ky.

William H. Woodbridge. Private. Enrolled April 25, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. One of the squad enlisted by Thomas J. McKean. Left sick in Hospital, at Vera Cruz, Mexico. June 4, 1847. Died July 7, 1847. Residence Marion, Linn County, Iowa. Native of Connecticut. Known in the Company by the name of "Democ" Woodbridge. [S. D. Thompson.]

    In the list published in the Iowa Historical Record we find six names that do not appear on the official list furnished us. Since that list is unquestionably official, and since we have, in the case of several of them, other evidence that they were members of the Company, we append their names here:

Peter A. Berry. Private. Enrolled April 24, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa. by Lieutenant Bowie. No further information obtained.

George G. Gibbs. Private. Enrolled April 14, 1847, at Keosauqua, Iowa by Lieutenant Beckett. [Reported wounded June 6, 1847, in record of Colonel Mclntosh, U. S. A., of killed, wounded and missing of a detachment of the U. S. Army, enroute Vera Cruz to the interior of Mexico, in a combat with the enemy on the 6th and 7th of June, 1847. Reported in list of deaths in E. R. Cutler's letter, before cited.]

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John Logan Private. Enrolled April 19, 1847, at Bloomington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bennett. No further information obtained.

Charles Long Private. Enrolled April 10, 1847, at Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Bowie. [Reported in list of deaths in letter of E. R. Cutler.]

Thomas J. McKean Private. Enrolled April 12, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Promoted to Sergeant Major of the Regiment May 10, and joined the Regiment at Covington, Ky. Wounded at Churubusco, Sept. 13, 1847. Mustered out at Covington, Ky., Aug. 7, 1848. Residence Marion, Linn County. Iowa. Born in Bradford County, Pa., in 1810. Appointed Cadet U. S. Military Academy July 1, 1827 Graduated nineteenth in his class July 31, 1831. Brevet Second Lieutenant, Fourth Infantry. Resigned March 31, 1834. Adjutant First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in Florida War, Nov. 1, 1837, to May, 1838. Removed to Iowa and settled in Marion, Linn County. Member of First Constitutional Convention in Iowa Territory, 1844. Chief Engineer Dubuque Southwestern Railroad, 1848-1851. U. S. Deputy Surveyor and General Assistant to Surveyor General of Iowa and Wisconsin, 1851-53. Commissioner to locate seat of government of Iowa, 1855. Sheriff of Linn County, Iowa, 1859-1861. Additional Paymaster, U. S. Volunteers, June 1, 1861. Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 21, 1861. Mustered out Aug. 24, 1865. Mayor of Marion, Iowa, 1865. Died at Marion, Iowa, April 19, 1870. [Cullum's Biographical Register, Graduates U. S. Military Academy.]

John Schuyler . Private, Enrolled April 2, 1847, at Fort Madison, Iowa, by Captain Guthrie. Reported in the deaths in the Company in letter from E. R. Cutler, before cited.

SUMMARY of CASUALTIES

Total Enrollment	113
Killed	5
Wounded	0
Died of wounds	49
Died of disease	8
Discharged for wounds, disease and other causes	6

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MISCELLANEOUS ENLISTMENTS OF IOWA MEN IN MEXICAN WAR

    Mr. Reid's history gives a list of sixteen names of Iowa men who were known to have been engaged in active service in the Mexican War. either in the Regular Army or in military organizations of other States. Some of these men rendered distinguished service. Mr. Reid gives extended biographical sketches of nearly all of these men, which have been condensed to the usual paragraph form in the list which follows:

Stephen Decatur Bross Residence Andrew, Iowa. Enlisted June 1, 1846, at St. Louis, Mo., in Captain Hudson's Independent Company of Riflemen, known as the Laclede Rangers. Took part in Doniphan's Expedition to Mexico. Mustered out with Company June 24, 1847.

J. J. Brown. Residence Fort Madison, Iowa. Enlisted in 1846 in Company F, First United States Infantry, with which be served during the War with Mexico.

Edwin Griffin. Residence Andrew, Iowa. Enlisted March 12, 1847, in Company I First United States Infantry. Served in Mexico during the War.

Ira Griffin. Residence Andrew, Iowa. Age 23. Enlisted in Company I First United States Infantry, March 12, 1847. Served in Mexico until Dec. 1, 1847, when he was honorably discharged.

Sylvester Griffin. Residence Andrew, Iowa. Enlisted Nov. 27, 1847, in Fourteenth United States Infantry. Honorably discharged July 28, 1848. He subsequently enlisted in Company K, Twelfth Iowa Infantry (when he was sixty-one years old), Oct. 19, 1861. He was severely wounded April 6, 1862, at the battle of Shiloh, and died from the effects of his wounds May 26, 1862.

Henry Hancock. Residence Andrew, Iowa. Enlisted June 12, 1846, in Company A, Battalion Light Artillery, Missouri Volunteers. Promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant. Took part in Doniphan's Expedition to Mexico. Mustered out at expiration of term of enlistment.

Thomas James. Residence Dubuque, Iowa. Enlisted June 12, 1846, in Company A, Battalion Light Artillery, Missouri Volunteers. Took part in battles in New Mexico, under Colonel Sterling Price. Was mustered out at expiration of term of service.

Anderson Martin. Residence LeClaire, Iowa. Enlisted Sept. 30, 1847, in the Fourteenth United States Infantry, with which he served during the War with Mexico.

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Benjamin F. Martin. Residence LeClaire, Iowa. Enlisted Sept. 30, 1847, in the Fourteenth United States Infantry. Died July 27, 1848, in Hospital, New Orleans, La.

Frederick D. Mills. Residence Burlington, Iowa. Commissioned, by President Polk, Major in the United States Army, March 3, 1847, and assigned to duty with the Fifteenth Infantry. Killed in battle near the City of Mexico.

Samuel Pickles. Residence Bellevue, Iowa. Enlisted March 6, 1847, in Company I First United States Infantry. Died of yellow fever June 27, 1847, at Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Benjamin Stone Roberts. Residence Fort Madison, Iowa. Commissioned, by President Polk, First Lieutenant in the United States Army, May 27, 1846, and assigned to duty with the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. He served with distinction throughout the Mexican War and was promoted to Captain. He was subsequently given the brevet rank of Major and Lieutenant Colonel In the War of the Rebellion, Colonel Roberts also served with distinction, and was promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers. He died Jan. 29, 1870, at Washington, D. C.

Horace Salter. Residence Maquoketa, Iowa. Enlisted at St. Louis, June 1, 1846, in Captain Hudson's Company known as the Laclede Rangers. Took part in Doniphan's Expedition to Mexico. Discharged at expiration of term of service.

Joseph S. Shumake. Residence Andrew, Iowa. Enlisted March 6, 1847, in Company I First United States Infantry. Served the full term of his enlistment.

lra F. Smith. Residence LeClaire, Iowa Enlisted in the Fourteenth United States Infantry, with which he served during the War with Mexico.

Madison J. Smith. Residence LeClaire, Iowa. Enlisted Sept. 20, 1847, In the Fourteenth United States Infantry, with which he served during the War with Mexico.

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THE MORMON BATTALION OF IOWA VOLUNTEERS

     A very extended account of experiences of the organization known as Mormons or Latter Day Saints, from the date of their settlement at Nauvoo, Ill., to the time of their leaving that place and moving farther: west, is given in Mr. Reid's early history of Iowa. Limitation of space will only permit the compiler to quote such portions of the official orders as relate to the action of the War Department, in authorizing the organization of a battalion of Infantry Volunteers, to be composed exclusively of men belonging to the Mormon .Church. This battalion, as will be seen, was to cooperate with and. become a part of an expeditionary force, whose ultimate destination was to be some point on the Pacific Coast. The inducement to the Mormons to engage in such service was mainly the opportunity it would afford them to found a new home for their people at some point in the far west. The following extracts are made from a letter of instructions from W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War, to Brigadier General S. W. Kearny, commanding United States forces at Fort Leavenworth. The letter is dated at the War Department, in Washington, June 3, 1846.

    It has been decided by the President to be of the greatest importance, in the pending war with Mexico, to take early possession of Upper California. An expedition, with that view, is hereby ordered, and you are designated to command it. To enable you to be in sufficient force to conduct It successfully, an additional force of one thousand mounted men has been provided to follow you in the direction of Santa Fe, to be under your orders, or the officer you may leave in command at Santa Fe.... I need not say to you that, in case you conquer Santa Fe, and with it the Department or State of New Mexico, it will be important to provide for retaining safe possession. Should you deem it necessary to have still more troops for the accomplishment of the object herein designated, you will lose no time in communicating your opinion on that point, and all others connected with the enterprise, to this department. Indeed, you are hereby authorized to make direct requisition upon the Governor of Missouri for troops.

    "It is known that a large body of Mormon emigrants are enroute to California, for the purpose of settling in that country. You are desired to use all proper means to have a good understanding with then), to the end that the United States may have their co-operation in taking possession of and holding that country. It has been suggested here, that many of these Mormons would willingly enter into the service of the United States, and aid us in our expedition against California. You are hereby authorized to

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muster into service such as can be induced to volunteer, not, however, to a number exceeding one-third of your entire force. Should they enter the service, they will be paid as other volunteers, and you can allow them to designate, as far as it can properly be done, the persons to act as their officers, It is understood that a considerable number of American citizens are now settled on the Sacramento River, near Suter's establishment, called Nueva Helvetica. . . . Should you, on your arrival in that country, find such to be the case, you are authorized to organize and receive into the service of the United States such portion of these citizens as you may think useful to aid you to hold possession of the country. You will, in that case, allow them, so far as you may deem proper, to select their own officers. A large discretionary power is invested in you in regard to these matters, as well as to all others in relation to the expedition confided to your command. . . ."

     General Kearny lost no time in acting upon the suggestion to recruit a battalion from the Mormon emigrants. Captain James Allen, of the First U. S. Dragoons, was detailed for the purpose of organizing the battalion. He received minute instructions, which he carried out to the letter. The additional inducement was offered the Mormons that, upon the expiration of their term of service, they would be allowed to retain as their private property the guns and accouterments furnished them by the government. The battalion was promptly organized and mustered into the service of the United States. Its service is well described in the official report of Colonel P. St. George Cooke, describing the march from Santa Fe to San Diego, Cal. There were many interesting incidents connected with the march of the battalion to Santa Fe, but it was after leaving that place that its most important and arduous service was performed, as shown in the official report, which is here given in full:

REPORT OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL P. ST. GEORGE COOKE OF HIS
MARCH FROM SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, TO SAN DIEGO,
UPPER CALIFORNIA

     "San Luis Rey, California,
     February 5, 1847.

     "Sir: In obedience to Army of the West Order No. 33, of October 2nd, I returned from La Joya, New Mexico, to Santa Fe, to take command of the Mormon Battalion. I arrived there on the 7th of October.

     "I found that the paymasters, from whose arrival you anticipated a plentiful resource of money for the quartermaster department, had brought so little specie that no payment of troops could be made. The consequence was that Captain Hudson's Company of Volunteers for California, which you had assigned to my command, could not mount themselves; and the quartermaster's department. which scarcely commanded a dollar, could hardly have

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furnished the transportation. Owing to these difficulties, the Captain's new company was broken up by Colonel Doniphan, commanding. "A portion of the battalion of Mormons arrived the evening of the 9th of October, under First Lieutenant C. J. Smith, First Dragoons, who had, in the capacity of Acting Lieutenant Colonel, directed its march from Council Grove. The rear of the battalion arrived the evening of the 12th. On the 13th, I assumed command, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, by virtue of your appointment. Its aggregate present was four hundred forty-eight. I found that their mules were entirely broken down, and that as many as sixty men had, from sickness and other causes, been transported in wagons much of the march; and that there were twenty-five women, besides many children. The Assistant Surgeon of the battalion, Doctor Sanderson, and a senior officer of the department, Doctor DeCamp, reported on the cases of a very large number as subjects for discharge for disability. But the Colonel commanding determined, under all the circumstances, to retain them in service, and ordered them to be sent to winter at "Pueblo," on the Arkansas River, above Bent's Fort. There the Mormons have a temporary settlement, and there Mr. Smith had sent, from the crossing of the Arkansas, a party of ten, commanded by Captain Higgins, in charge of a large number of families, which had theretofore been attached to the Mormon Battalion. This detachment had orders to join the battalion at Santa Fe (They arrived after its march, and, I learned, obtained permission to return to the Pueblo.) About this time, I learned that you had left your wagons, in consequence of difficulties of the country; and was anxious, for the benefit of all, to disencumber the expedition of the twenty laundresses. Learning that the most of them wished to go with the detachment to the Arkansas, I ordered them all to be sent there. With a sufficient number of able-bodied men (husbands of the women) to take care of it, the detachment amounted to eighty-six, and was placed under the command of Captain Brown.

    "I urged every preparation for the march, but it was impossible to complete them before the 19th of October; the battalion was paid, with treasury drafts, on the 16th and 17th. There was no salt pork in Santa Fe; a sufficiency did not arrive until the evening of the 16th. Beef cattle, furnished under previous contract to the battalion, were received on the night of the 17th; and a quantity of pack saddles the same evening. On the 19th of October, I marched out of Santa Fe, and encamped at Agua Frio. at the earnest request of two captains and three sergeants, their wives were permitted to accompany the expedition; having their own wagons and mules and provisions.

    "The rations had been issued to the companies, and each had three mule wagons, and one was drawn by oxen (these last were to be sent back on leaving the river). The rations were sixty days flour and salt, sugar and coffee; thirty days of pickled pork, and twenty of soap.

    "The mules furnished me were mostly poor and worked down; the half of them were utterly unfit to commence an ordinary march. A number, as well as of oxen, were left behind, unable to walk, in the first forty miles. Thus, I was obliged to exchange them two for one, and to purchase many others. For the first one hundred fifty miles, on the Rio Grande, there was, at that season, no grass deserving the name. I purchased, when I could, corn and fodder, but in very small quantities. I had three hundred eighty sheep purchased, near Socorro, and beeves, to make up the sixty days rations. About seventyfive miles below that point, l became convinced

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that the march must fail, unless some improvement was made. I was marching about eight miles a day, In as many hours, through the deep sand; the mules, overworked, growing poorer, giving out, dying and left behind each day.

    "From the opinions of the guides, there was also reason to apprehend that the supply of provisions was inadequate; and the ox wagons were then to go back. There were twenty-two men on the sick report, who, with the arms and knapsacks of others, encumbered the wagons. I called on the Assistant Surgeon and company commanders for lists of those they believed worthless for the march; fifty-eight names were soon given to me. Captain Burgwin's camp was fifty-eight miles above. I resolved, then, to send back those fifty-eight men, with twenty-six days' rations, with one ox wagon, and to leave the other two there, to be sent for, retaining the teams, and to make another reduction of baggage. Many tents and camp kettles were left in the wagons, and all the upright poles, for which muskets were used as substitutes. (The backs of the tents were opened, and a piece inserted, so as thus to become very large and nearly circular, in which ten men were accommodated.) The oxen I used in mule wagons; packed those unfit for draught, and also, though very lightly, the poor extra mules. The detachment went in command of a lieutenant, who received orders to report, for ultimate instructions, to the officer commanding in the territory. A calculation showed that, by these measures, with increased means of transportation, the loads were reduced twenty per cent: and also that the rations (or half rations) of the battalion were increased by eight days. Then, and only then, could I begin to see my way to the end, with confidence. After these two weedings of the old; the feeble and sickly, from the battalion, lads and old gray-headed men still remained.

    "The numerous guides and hirelings you sent to me, I found at the lowest village; they had been idle for weeks, and I found I was to venture, with my wagons, into a wide region, unknown to any of them. The river route improved greatly, and, opposite, was apparently a practicable gap in the mountain barrier, between mine and the Chihuahua Road (the fine but badly watered stretch known as the Jornada del Muerto ). About thirty miles lower, and in the vicinity of a point called San Diego, the mountains which, so far, had confined the road to the river, break off, and then I turned short to the right, on the arid table land of Mexico, which I found studded with the profusion of isolated mountains of volcanic origin. My method, now, was this: Leroux [guide] with five, six or seven others, would get a day in advance, exploring for water, in the best practicable direction; finding a spring or a puddle (sometimes a hole) in nearly inaccessible rocks, he would send a man back, who would meet me and be the guide. This operation would be repeated until his number was unsafely reduced, when he would await me, or return to take a fresh departure. This was the plan, but ever varying and uncertain, attended, of' course, with much anxiety; and sometimes, the inconvenience of neglect or tardiness, on the part of the guides, making the road once or twice, to vary from the better course, which a more thorough examination, in the first instance, would have discovered. Such, with some vicissitudes of risk and suffering, and the accidental aid of a little confused information from a trading party we encountered, was the manner of my progress for about two hundred fifty miles from the Rio Grande to the San Pedro, a tributary of the Gila. But I anticipate.

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     "Thus I reached the Ojo de Vaca, about twenty-six miles south from the copper mines, on an old road to Yanos, used for transporting the ore. To the west appeared a vast prairie opening, between the mountains; it was the course; but the principal guides had each his dread of it, founded upon vague information, from Indians, of its destitution of water; and watering places might exist and not be found by us. They had explored about twenty-five miles of it, finding an out of the way and insufficient hole of water ten miles distant.

    "I ascended a high peak, and there, taking the bearings of distant land marks, which they professed to know, earnestly consulted with them and the interpreter, who had lately passed through Sonora, as to the best course to be taken. They were deceived, themselves, as I believe, and so deceived me, as to the direction of Yanos; and gave a decided opinion as to the unsafely of venturing into the prairie; and also, that it would be best to take the Yanos road, and thence, by an old trail, a road formerly used to connect the presidios or frontier garrisons, Yanos, Fronteras, Fruson, etc.

    "The next morning, having reluctantly assented, I took the Yanos road. A mile or two convinced me (and them) that its general direction was very different from their representations; and east of south. I then took the responsibility of turning short to the right, and ordered them to guide me to the water hole. I had some confused information of water to be found in the direction of San Bernadino. Mr. Leroux had been very decided that it would be necessary to go by this southern point, even if I ventured that far on the unknown prairie. I then marched forty miles without water, except a drink for part of the men, where I had hoped to find enough for encamping. The battalion was not prepared for it and suffered much. These were anxious circumstances and the responsibility I had taken weighed heavily upon me; their safety and my success seemed both doubtful Fortunately, a large spring was reached on the second night, after a continuous march of thirteen hours; and when men and mules were at the point of exhaustion, for the weather was quite warm.

    "I was joined here by a party of New Mexicans, who had been trading with the Apaches. I purchased twenty-one mules of them giving a check on the Assistant Quartermaster at Santa Fe. I also hired one of them to conduct Leroux to the mountain valley, where they had left the Apaches, and sent him to seek an Indian guide. A day or two after, we found a trail leading toward San Bernadino; and the fourth day, early, just after Chabonnaux, the only guide then present, had very unwarrantedly gone off hunting, we fell into what was believed to be the trail or road from Yanos, to Fronteras; and it immediately led us to a precipitous and rocky descent of perhaps a thousand feet, amongst broken, wild and confused peaks, which extended as far as could be seen from our great height. I soon found the trail could not be made passable for the wagons; and I hunted myself for a more promising descent, and, in fact, saw a part of the proper one, but very inaccessible from the mountain height on which I then was. My next care was to seek the nearest ground suitable for a camp: fortunately I found water about a mile off. All pronounced the country before us impassable for wagons; I nevertheless, organized a large working party, under Lieutenant Stoneman, and sent him to make a passage. That night Leroux arrived, bringing an Apache chief, whom he had got hold of with difficulty, and probably great address, so shy were they found. Next morning it was owing to Leroux's decided assertions and arguments that there could be, and was, no other known pass but the horse trail, that I

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did not insist on his thorough examination. He even asserted, but was mistaken, that he had examined the opening I had seen and described, and believed might be a wagon road. Meanwhile, the party continued the second day hard at work, with crow bar, pick, etc.; whilst I sent one company and about half the baggage, packed on mules, to the first water on the trail, in a deep ravine below. It was about six miles, and the mules were brought back in the evening. Next morning they took the rest of the loading, and I succeeded that day, with much labor and difficulty, breaking one, in getting the wagons to the new camp. Doctor Foster accidentally found the outlet of an old wagon road, (into mine) and, following back, it led him to the verge of the plain, about a mile from our point of descent. He says this is called the pass of Guadalupe; and that it is the only one, for many hundreds of miles to the south, by which the broken descent from the great table land of Mexico can be made by wagons, and rarely by pack mules. I hold it to be a question whether the same difficult formation does not extend north, at least to the Gila. If it is so, my road is probably the nearest and the best route. But, if the prairie to the north is open to the San Pedro, and water can be found, that improvement will make my road not only a good but a direct one from the Rio Grande to the Pacific.

    "San Barnadio [San Bernadino] is a ruined ranch, with buildings enclosed by a wall, with regular bastions. It overlooks a wide, flat and rich valley, watered by a noble spring, which runs into one of the upper branches of the Huaqui River, which is but a few miles distant. Here I succeeded in meeting a few of the Apaches, and obtained a guide, who went about twenty miles, and described the rest of the route to the San Pedro. He was afraid to venture further, and return alone over the plain; the point where he turned back was within fourteen miles of the presidio of Fronteras. It was in the mountain pass that we first saw the wild bulls, from which the command obtained their exclusive supply of meat for about two weeks. They are the increase from those abandoned, when the two ranches of San Bernadio [San Bernadino] and San Pedro (on the river of the same name) were broken up in consequence of incessant Indian attacks. They have spread and increased, so as to cover the country; they were as wild and more dangerous than buffalo.

    "I made the next sixty-two miles to the San Pedro River with little more difficulty than cutting my way through dense thickets of mesquite and many other varieties of bushes, all excessively thorny It was but twenty-seven miles without water over the last divide; there was snow one day, and for about two weeks, at that time, we suffered with cold. I descended the San Pedro fifty-five miles, to a point whence a trail goes to Tucson.

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The guides represented that it was eighty-five miles of very difficult, if practicable, ground, to the mouth of the San Pedro, and one hundred from there to the Pimos; also very bad, and little or no grass: and, on the other hand, that it was only about ninety miles of good road, with grass, by Tucson to the same point. I reflected that I was in no condition to go an unnecessary one hundred miles, good or bad; and that, if their statements were true, the future road must go by the town. I had previously sent Leroux, Foster and others to examine if there was water on the thirty miles, which was the estimated distance to Tucson. Leroux had just returned; he had found water at a "still house," twenty miles from the river; and had encountered there a Sergeant's party of dragoons, He had made up a story to get off; but, to give it color, Doctor Foster fancied it necessary to go on to the town. Leroux was told by Indians that two hundred soldiers, with artillery, had been there concentrated. I reached the wiser next day, and probably surprised the Sergeant's party. I found them cutting grass; but the Sergeant, as if the bearer of a flag, delivered me a singular message from the commander, which amounted to a request that I should not pass his post. Next morning I mad-e prisoners of four others, who had come, probably, with provisions; and, as Doctor Foster's long stay had made me uneasy for him, I dismissed one of them with a note stating that I should hold the others as hostages for his safety; and promised to release the prisoners if he was sent to me that evening. Deceived as to the distance, but expecting to encamp without water I marched late; and, having made twelve miles on road very difficult in places, I encamped at sundown on the high prairie. At midnight, Foster reached me; with him came two officers, one as a "commissioner," with written instructions to offer a kind of truce, by the terms of which I was to pass the town by a certain point, and to hold no communication with the people: I rejected them, and demanded a capitulation; which the commissioner, with great form, wrote, after his own fashion, in Spanish, and I signed it. The terms bound the garrison not to serve against the United States during the present war; and, as the only further tokens of surrender, to deliver to me two carbines and three lances; my men to enter freely and trade with the inhabitants of the town. After a tedious conference of two hours in which we had been very friendly, but very cold, the officers departed, assuring me my terms could not be accepted. Believing I was eight or nine miles from town, I took measures to march at daylight; but unfortunately, the mules, being herded in mesquite bushes, and without water, the half of them, in the darkness of night, escaped the guard; and I could not possibly march, with any prudence, before eight o'clock.

    "The distance proved to be sixteen miles. About five miles from town I was met by a dragoon, or lancer, who delivered me a letter, simply refusing my terms. I told him there was no answer, and he rode off. I then ordered the arms to be loaded Immediately afterwards, two citizens rode up and reported the place had been evacuated. I arrived at one o'clock, and, having passed through the fort, encamped in the edge of the town. Two small field pieces had been taken off, and all public property of value, except a large store of wheat.

    "The garrisons of Tubac, Santa Cruz and Fronteras had been concentrated, and, I understood Doctor Foster, there were altogether about two hundred thirty men; but I have lately learned he only estimated them at one hundred thirty. I remained in camp the next day, December 16th. There was very little grass, and I fed my mules, cattle and sheep on the wheat, and brought off enough for two more days in the adjoining desert. That day, to cover some small parties of mule hunters, I made a reconnaissance, with about sixty men, marching half-way to an Indian village, about ten miles off, where the enemy were stationed. (I intended attacking him under favorable circumstances, but the path led me through a dense mesquite forest, very favorable to an ambush; I learned, however, that this demonstration caused him to continue his retreat.)

    "The garrison attempted to force all the inhabitants to leave the town with them. Some of them returned whilst I lay there, and I took pains that

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all should be treated with kindness The day that I arrived there, a detachment of twenty-five men, who had been posted at the Pimos, to observe or harass my march, having been sent for by express, passed unobserved around a mountain, near town, and joined the main body. (I afterwards learned that they had made a threatening demand for the mules and goods left for me with the Indian chief. He refused, and expressed his determination to resist, by force, any attempt to take them.) On leaving T., I sent to its late commander, Captain Commaduran. by a citizen messenger, a letter for the governor of Sonora, and I afterwards received an answer that it would be transmitted. It is appended. All things considered I thought it the. proper course to take toward a reputed popular governor of a state, believed to be disgusted and disaffected to the imbecile central government. It was intimated to me, whilst in Tucson, that, if I would march toward the capital of the department, I would be joined by sufficient numbers to effect a revolution.

    "On the 17th, I marched late, as I did not expect to find water. At eight o'clock P. M., I encamped twenty-four miles from Tucson, with no water or grass. Ten or fifteen miles further there is a little water, in a mountain, close to the road, but it could not be found; and I marched the second day thirty miles, and, at nine P. M., again encamped without water; but the men, about sundown, had a drink from a small puddle, too shallow for the water to be dipped with a cup. On the third day, I marched early, eight or nine miles, and encamped at rain water pools. The next day I found it ten miles to the Gila, at a small grass bottom, above the Pimo villages. The mules were forty-eight miles without water; the men marched twenty-six of thirty-six consecutive hours, and sixty-two miles in rather more than two days, in one of which no meat rations were issued.

    "Thus the ninety miles of the guides turned out to be one hundred twenty-eight to the village; fifty-seven miles nearer than the reputed distance by the San Pedro. excepting four or five miles, the road was excellent, but over a true desert. There is, however, a better watered road from Tucson, which strikes the Gila higher up. I believe this route can be well taken for six months in the year, and that, like much of the road on this side, it is impassable in summer, unless for travelers. It is a great gold district; rich mines have been discovered in many of the mountains in view, but it is so barren and destitute of water that even a mining population can scarcely occupy it.

    "I halted one day near the villages of this friendly, guileless and singularly innocent and cheerful people, the Pimos. There Francisco met me with your letter from Warner's ranch; he brought with him seven mules found on the Gila, and, altogether, I obtained at the villages twenty which had belonged to the dragoons. They were not sufficiently recruited to be of much service. I traded the Indian goods and every spare article for corn, After feeding it several days, I brought away twelve quarts for each public animal, which was fed in very small quantities,

    "With the aid of a compass, and closely estimating the distances, I had made a rude sketch of my route from the point on the Rio Grande, where our roads diverged, to their junction, near the villages. It is herewith submitted. I have good reason to believe that even with pack mules better time can be made on my route than on yours; and the mules keep in good order, for mine improved on the greater part of it. On the 27th of December, (after making the forced march, without water, across the bend of the Gila, ) in consequence of the information received in your letter, I

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determined to send my useless guides, express, to give you information of my approach, etc.; hoping thus, as I said, to meet orders at Warner's ranch on the 21st of January, and to be of service to your active operations. I also sent for assistance in mules, understanding that you had placed a number of them in that vicinity.

     "Sixty or seventy miles above the mouth of the Gila, having more wagons than necessary, and scarcely able to get them on, I tried the experiment, with very clattering assurance of success, of boating with two pontoon wagon beds and a raft for the running gear. I embarked a portion of the rations, some road tools, and corn. The experiment signally failed. owing to the shallowness of the water on the bars; the river was very low. In consequence of the difficulty of approaching the river, orders mistaken, etc., the flour only was saved from the loading, and the pontoons were coated empty to the crossing of the Rio Colorado, where they were used as a ferry boat. I passed that river on the 10th and 11th of January. On the first day and night, the loading of the wagons and many men were boated over. On the morning of the 11th, the mules were driven two miles, from grass; then drew the wagons through the long ford of a mile, nearly swimming. The wagons were then loaded in the willow thicket, and I marched nearly fifteen miles over the sandy road, to the first well, the same day; a great effort and labor. But, as there was no food for the mules on this side, I deemed it so necessary that I forced it, against every obstacle; marching, in fact, when one company's wagon was in a hole in the middle of the river, the sheep and rear guard on the opposite bank. In the well I found no water; and, when obtained by digging deeper, it was in quick sand, and quite insufficient for the men. I had another well dug, and, against hope almost, when considerably below the water level of the old one, that of the river water suddenly boiled up.

     "I. viewed this, as in other instances, a Providential deliverance. It was the most trying hour of my long military service. That water failing, the next well would also; and all the circumstances well considered, it will be found that on obtaining it not only depended my military success, but the lives of very many, who justly could hold me responsible.

     "When of no real use to me, some wagons, which were broken on the march, were left, in order to save the mules. At this first well I left three, because the mules were unequal to drawing them. I had then remaining one for each company and two others. I sent forward a strong party to the next well, to prepare it, and dig another. I arrived there the second day, soon after noon; and, during my stay, until eleven A M. the following morning, I could not obtain enough water. There I left two more wagons (arrangements were made for sending for all these wagons the moment that I arrived at the first ranch).

     "I then took the direction of the Pozo hondo, the deep well, sending a party through the first day. and arriving before noon, the second Although a second deep well had been dug, the water was insufficient even for the men to drink. I had spent the night without water, and thirty miles of desert were still before me; the men wayworn and exhausted, half fed, and many shoeless. But I met there a relief of mules and some beeves. Mr. Leroux had sent back fifty-seven mules, which were chiefly young, unbroken, and wild as deer, and the cattle, in one body, (and by poor hands) so a day's time had been lost, and twenty of the mules.

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     "I immediately had a beef killed for a meal; a drink of water issued to the men, the wild mules caught by their Indian drivers, with the lasso, thrown, haltered and harnessed; the poor animals, which then had not drank for thirty-six hours, struggling desperately during the whole process, which lasted above two hours under a hot sun. Then I marched until an hour after dark, and halted to rest until two o'clock in the morning. I had chosen a spot where there was some large bunch grass, which was cut for the mules. There was no moon, but at two o'clock the battalion marched again and, at midday, having come eighteen miles more, after long ascending its dry bed, met the running waters of the Carizita. The most of the animals had been without water for about fifty hours. Here there was but little grass, and I marched next day fifteen miles, through the sands, to the Bajiocito, the poor men staggering, utterly exhausted, into camp. At this time there should have been half rations of flour for nine days; but owing, probably, to inevitable wastage, the last of it was eaten here. I rested a day, and received at evening a letter from Commander Montgomery. It advised me of your march to Pueblo; of the tardy arrival of my express, and of communication with you being cut off. Next day I encountered extraordinary obstacles to a wagon road, and actually hewed a passage with axes through a chasm of solid rock, which lacked a foot of being as wide as the wagons. Two of them were taken through in pieces, whilst the work was going on So much was I retarded that I encamped at dark on the mountain slope, making but seven miles, without water, and without being prepared for it. San Philippi was six miles on this side, but there was a ridge between, so rough with rocks that, after much labor, it took extreme care to get the wagons over in daylight. At San Philippi I met one of my express men, who had returned, according to instructions, to guide me. Though direct from San Diego, he brought neither orders nor news. I encamped that night near the summit of the beautiful pass, overlooking the valley of Agua Calienta. On the 21st day of January I arrived and encamped at Warner's ranch, the very day, as it happened, I had promised in my letter of December 27th

    "This was seven miles off the road to San Diego; but I had resolved, the night before, to march for the Pueblo de los Angeles, where the enemy had concentrated, unless I met orders or fresh information. That which I had, placed your forces approaching it on the south, and Lieutenant Colonel Fremont's from the north. Thus, I should advance from the east, and from the only pass leading to Sonora. I halted at Warner's the 22nd, to rest and refresh my men, before commencing, as I hoped, active operations. The day was required, in fact, to obtain beef cattle, and to collect the new mules, many of which had escaped to their wonted pastures in that vicinity.

    "On the 23rd, I marched eighteen miles on the road to Pueblo. That night we were exposed to a drenching rain, and a wind storm which prostrated every tent. The storm continued the next day; I however, marched, over a very bad road, three or four miles, to more sheltered ground, and better grass for the animals. (A mountain torrent in front would have forbidden further progress.)

    "On the 26th, I marched into the Temecala valley, and encamped four days' march from Pueblo. There I received a letter, written by your orders, which had followed me by Warner's. From this letter I could infer that hostilities were suspended, and that I was expected at San Diego. Accordingly, next morning, I left the valley by a very difficult outlet, and, descending into that of the San Luis, fell into the road leading from Pueblo de los Angeles.

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     "At San Luis Rey I received your instructions, by express, to march to San Diego Mission, and there take post. I arrived there, by a very bad cross road, on the 29th of January, and the same evening reported to you, in person, at San Diego.

    "This march from Santa Fe has extended, by my daily estimate, to eleven hundred twenty-five miles. It has been made in one hundred two days, in fourteen of which no march was made; so that the marching days average slightly less than thirteen miles. The rest days have been very nearly one in seven. It is believed, by many who have had experience, that the weekly day of rest is advisable on a long march, even for speed. In looking back, I find that the half of mine were unavoidable detentions. I made, also, some twelve marches of less than nine miles, in consequence of extraordinary bad road, or the delays of road making, over difficult ground, and also the necessity, at times, of accommodating the marches and camps to inconvenient watering places. If I had continued on the most direct route to San Diego, the distance would have been rather under eleven hundred miles, about eighteen hundred miles from Independence Mo., by Santa Fe.

    "The constant tenor of your letters of instruction made it almost a point of honor to bring wagons through to the Pacific; and so I was retarded in making and finding a road for them. From this road, any that may follow will have various advantages. The breaking the track, often through thickets of mesquite and other thorny bushes, although worked on by pioneers, was so laborious that I habitually relieved the front wagons about every hour; but a team on a firm open prairie labors much less, it on a beaten track. Much of the difficult ground on the Gila, consisting of light porous clay, becomes a good beaten road. My journal and sketch indicate some points where the road may be shortened; but, between the Ojo de Vaca and the point of leaving the San Pedro River, it is probable that between eighty and one hundred miles may be saved, and some bad road be avoided It is only necessary for a small, experienced party, well provided with water (with Indian guides, if practicable,) to explore the prairie, and discover the water places.; The direct distance is about one hundred sixty miles.

    "The worse road is on the Rio Grande, opposite the upper and middle part of the Jornada del Muerto. It may probably be avoided by coming the Jornada road half way down or more, and then crossing to the west side. I have reason to believe that there are gaps in the mountains, and opposite where my road becomes good. This assumes that the great highway will pass as far north as Santa Fe, which may not be the case. The country from the Rio Grande to Tucson is covered with grama-grass, on which animals, moderately worked, will fatten in winter.

    "An emigrant company may leave Independence, Mo., from June 10th to late in August, or Van Buren, Ark., later. It will subsist a short time on buffaloes, and be able to lay up much of the meat, dried or salted. In New Mexico, it may rest, make repairs, and obtain supplies, particularly of mules, sheep and cattle, which, in that grazing country, will be found cheap; it may pass through settlements for two hundred fifty miles; and they will be much extended in the rich river bottoms to the south, when the Indians shall be subdued.

    "I brought to California both beeves and sheep; the latter did, perhaps, the best, requiring little water; they gave no trouble; two or three men can drive and guard a thousand. At Tucson, or at the Pimo villages fresh supplies may be obtained. The Pimos and Maracopas, fifteen or

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twenty thousand in number, wonderfully honest and friendly to strangers, raise corn and wheat, which they grind and sell cheaply for bleached domestics, summer clothing of all sorts, showy cotton handkerchiefs, and white beads. They also have a few mules and cattle. I gave them some breeding sheep. Oxen will not do well for draught; their feet become tender; and, west of the Pimos, their food is not found sufficient or suitable. Mules require no shoes, I cached a large quantity on the Gila, having used none. Undoubtedly, the fine bottom land of the Colorado, if not of the Gila, will soon be settled, then all difficulty will be removed. The crossing is about one hundred miles from the mouth, and about sixty above the tide. For six months in the year, the river is said to be navigable by steamboats for three hundred fifty miles; its bottoms are wide and rich; and sugar, undoubtedly, may be grown. In winter, it is fordable at the crossing; but I think it has at least as much water as the Missouri at the same season, and may be navigable by steamers at the mouth of the Gila at all seasons.

    "In conclusion, much credit is due to the battalion for the cheerful and faithful [manner] in which they have accomplished the great labors of this march, and submitted to its exposures and privations. They would much have preferred to lighten and abridge them, by leaving the wagons; but, without previous discipline, all was accomplished with unity and determination of Spirit. To enable the mules to endure the extraordinary labor of drawing these wagons without a road, and often without food or water, the duties of guards were greatly increased to herd them safely, as they did, over tracts sometimes a mile in extent, sometimes two miles from the camp, or beyond a river, and ten times did the battalion encamp without water. I am indebted to Lieutenants Smith and Stoneman, of the First Dragoons, who performed the duties of Assistant Commissary of Subsistence and Assistant Quartermaster, for valuable assistance, particularly in directing the pioneers. Mr. Willard P. Hall, too, was ever ready to give me aid, particularly in the most active and venturous duties.

    "Thus, General, whilst fortune was conducting you to battles and victories, I was fated to devote my best energies to more humble labors; and all have cause to regret that the real condition of affairs in this territory was so little understood. But it is passed, and I must be content with having done my duty in the task which you assigned to me, if, as I trust, to your satisfaction.

    Respectfully submitted,

    P. ST. GEORGE Cooke, Lieutenant Colonel
    Commanding Mormon Battalion.

    BRIGADIER GENERAL S. W. KEARNEY, Commanding Army of the West.
    San Diego. Upper California. It will thus be seen that the Mormon Battalion had a very remarkable record of service. The subjoined roster of the battalion was transcribed from Mr. Reid's early history without abridgment. The compiler has endeavored to describe the main incidents connecting the State of Iowa with the War with Mexico, and, considering its sparse population, it certainly must be conceded that its citizens made a record in that war unsurpassed by any other State in the Union.

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IOWA MORMON BATTALION

INTRODUCTION.

     The official Muster-out Rolls of the Mormon Battalion were supplied by the Assistant Chief, Records Division of the Auditor of the Treasury for the War Department. We have also a printed list of all the companies of the battalion taken from "A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion," written by Daniel Tyler, a Corporal and Sergeant in Company C. This affords an opportunity for the comparison of the two lists, and, where differences appear in the spelling of names or otherwise, they will be noted

    In a few instances some additional accounts of personal history will be given, found in a Church Encyclopedia, printed in the December 1889, number of the Historical Record, a Church periodical published in Salt Lake City. The detached service noted after the names of several of the soldiers we find explained in the history of the battalion.

    A guard was detached on September 16, 1846, from a point on the Arkansas River, under Captain Higgins, to take a number of families which had accompanied the battalion to Pueblo, a Mexican town located farther up the Arkansas River, the present city of Pueblo, Colorado. This guard appears on the official record as on detached service, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel C. J. Smith.

    Again, on October 17th, those incapable, from sickness and debility were sent from Santa Fe to Pueblo, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding the Army of the West. Again, on November 10th, the twenty-second day after leaving Santa Fe, when about to turn off from the valley of the Rio Grande to cross the mountains and deserts, Colonel Cooke sent hack Lieutenant W. W. Willis, with fifty-five sick men, to Santa Fe, and from there they also marched to Pueblo.

    These detachments all remained at Pueblo during the winter, and late in May took up their march for Salt Lake City, where they arrived during July, and were there mustered out to date July 16th, the expiration of their term of service. ~ This explains the note on the official roll [See also record of Gilbert Hunt. of Company A, for further explanation of muster out.

COMPANY A

MUSTER OUT ROLL

of

Captain Jefferson Hunt's Company A, of the Mormon Battalion of Foot Volunteers, to the 16th day of July, 1847, when discharged by expiration of term of service.

    It appears that all "Joined for Service and Enrolled at the General Rendezvous" July 16th, 1846, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and that all were "Mustered Into Service" at the same place and on the same date. (Those details are therefore omitted in paragraphs which follow.)

    In the Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army edited by, F. B. Heitman, and published by the War Department, in 1903 the name of this battalion is given as the Iowa Mormon Battalion.

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ROSTER

Jefferson Hunt. Captain. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. [See record of George P. Dykes, First Lieutenant of Company D. ]

George W. Oman. First Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, Los Angeles, Cal..

Lorenzo Clarke. Second Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, Los Angeles, Cal. Lorenzo Clarke was among those Mormons who had settled at Far West, Caldwell County, Mo., and went from there to Nauvoo. (Historical Record, Salt Lake City, Utah, Vol. 8, page 714. )

William W. Willis. Second Lieutenant. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of November 10, 1846. Mustered out to date July 16, 1847.

James Ferguson. Sergeant Major. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Redick N. Alred. Quartermaster Sergeant. (In Tyler's list, Reddick Newton Allred, Third Sergeant.) Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 21, 1822; living in 1889 at Spring City, San Pete County, Utah. (Historical Record, Vol. 8, page 942.)

William S. Muir. First Sergeant. (In Tyler's list, Fourth Corporal)Promoted to Sergeant, Battalion Order No. 24, of March 19, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal..

Ebenezer Brown. Second Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Died at Draperville, Salt Lake County, Utah, January 26, 1878. (Church Encyclopedia, Historical Record, Vol. 8, page 950.)

Alexander McCord. Third Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Hyram B. Chase. Fourth Sergeant. Appointed Sergeant from Private, Battalion Order No. 24, of March 9, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Gilbert Hunt. Corporal On detached service 17th of September, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel C. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847: (This muster-out remark, and all to the same purport, are marked on the official roll with an asterisk; the footnote reads as follows: "It is not conclusively shown where this detachment was mustered out. Evidence on file indicates that it was stationed at or near Great Salt Lake at time of M. O., but travel pay has been allowed in each case from Los Angeles, so the detachment was evidently considered as having been M. O. at that place the same as the balance of the Company." But see our introduction in regard to these detachments.) Gilbert Hunt was a son of the Captain of the Company. (Historical Record, Vol. 8, page 917.)

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Lafayette N. Frost. Second Corporal Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847. at Los Angeles, Cal. He re-enlisted in Captain Daniel C. Davis' new Company A, July 20, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Lafayette Shepherd. Appointed Corporal, Battalion Order No. 24. of March 9, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Henry Parkard. Appointed Corporal, Battalion Order No. 24, March 9 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re. Enlisted in Captain Daniel C. Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Elisha Everett. Musician. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was one of the Mormons who settled at Far West Missouri: he removed with them to Nauvoo. and is credited with having struck the first blow in opening the quarry from which stone was obtained in building the temple, and took a prominent part in its construction. (The Nauvoo Temple, Historical Record, Vol. 8, pp. 858, 859, 870.)

Joseph W. Richards. Musician. On detached service since the 17th of October, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding the Army of the West. "Joseph William Richards was a son of Phinehas Richards and Wealthy Dewey, born in Richmond, Berkshire County, Mass., May 25, 1829. Died at Pueblo, Colorado, November 21, 1846." (Church Encyclopedia Historical Record, Vol. VIII, page 991.)

Albern Allen. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Rufus C. Allen. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Allred. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James T. S. Allred. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846 by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Reuben W. Allred. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

James Bailey. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. "Zacheus Cheeney and James Bailey of the battalion were the first persons to make brick in San Francisco. They commenced the kiln in April, after which Brother Cheeney went to the mines and Brother Bailey burned the bricks 50,000 in June, 1848. Some tiles had previously been burned and perhaps some bricks may have been imported as ballast, but none had ever been made there." ("The Mormon Battalion" in Historical Record, Vol. 8, page 937.)

Gordin S. Beckstead. (Tyler's list, Gordon S. Beckstead.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

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Oren M. Beckstead. (Tyler's list, Orin M. Beckstead.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

James Bevin. (Tyler's list, James Bevan.) Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Gilbert Bickmore. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Mervin S.

Blanchard. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847. (In the history of Mormon Battalion, Historical Record, Vol. 8, page 919, it is stated that "On the 10th of April, Marvin S. Blanchard departed this life at Pueblo, Colorado, after a lingering illness." We are unable to reconcile this discrepancy. If he died April 10th he could not have been mustered out July 16th.)

Benjamin Brass. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

John Brown. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William W.

Brown. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Clinton Brunson. (Clinton D. Brunson, on Tyler's list.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John S. Bryant. (Tyler's list, John S. Briant.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Jacob K. Butterfield Private. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Alvie C. Calkins. (Tyler's list, Alva C. Calkins.) Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Edwin R. Calkins. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

James W. Calkins. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, as order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Sylvanus Calkins. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William W. Casper. (Tyler's list, William Wallace Casper.) Private Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Joseph Clark. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Riley G. Clark Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

George Colman. (Tyler's list, George Coleman.) Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Died December 18 1846. Taken sick enroute to Pueblo, he was left at he house of Mr. Turley, but attempted to follow on after the company. After traveling a short distance he expired, and was afterwards found dead by the roadside not far distant. ("Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 918. )

Henderson Cox. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was one of a company of eight persons who started May 1, 1848, to pioneer a wagon road over the Sierra Nevada mountains. The attempt had to b given up on account of the deep snow. About the 24th of June, Cox, with two others, made another attempt to cross the mountains on an exploring tour. The main body enroute to Salt Lake, which they had left on crossing the mountains about twenty days later found the dead bodies of the three Mormons who had been killed by the Indians. ("The Mormon Battalion" Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 936.)

Josiah Curtis. Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Zackeriah B. Decker. (Tyler's list, Zechariah B. Decker.) Private Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Joseph Dobson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Eli Dodson. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Died March 21 1847. (Tyler's history does not contain this name as being on Captain Brown's detachment, nor mention his death.)

James C. Earl Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Robert C. Egbert. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Henry Fairbanks. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

David Fredric. (Tyler's list, David Frederick.) Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

David Garner. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

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James H. Glines. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. [John T. Hughes, in Doniphan s Expedition, 1848, (Connally's Reprint, Page 258) says that "Glines" was Sergeant Major of the Mormon Battalion. It will be noted that Ferguson was promoted to that office October 15th, two days before Glines was detached. Neither the official roster nor Tyler mention Glines as Sergeant Major.]

Andrew Goodwin. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Gilman Gordin. (Tyler's list, Gilman Gordon.) Private. On detached service, 10th M. Department No. 12, May 13, 1847. Discharged July 16, 1847, at Bear River, Oregon, expiration of term of service, as Gordon.

James Hampton Private. Died on the Rio Grande, New Mexico, Nov. 4, 1846. Colonel P. St. George Cooke, in his Journal, November 3, 1846, says: "A man of A Company has died this evening; his death was very sudden; he walked to the Surgeon's but this morning." [Senate Doc. 2, Special Session, 1849. ]

Benjamin Hawkins. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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William F. Heckenlooper. (Tyler's list, William F. Hickenlooper.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Elijah E. Holdin. (Tyler's list, Elijah E. Holden.) Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Henry P. Hoyt. Private. Mustered out with company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Died on journey to Salt Lake from Sutter's Fort, on September 3rd, 1847.

Timothy S. Hoyt. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Wilford Hudson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was one of the first who learned of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, and worked placer diggings on an island, or sand bar, in the Sacramento River, which was subsequently known as Mormon Island. ("Mormon Battalion" Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 935.)

Eli B. Huett. (Tyler's list, Eli B. Hewett.) On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Hewitt.

Schuyler Hulett Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Marshall Hunt. (Tyler's list, Martial Hunt.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Richard C. Ivie. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Charles A. Jackson. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. (The muster roll states that he was mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal., which is probably an error of the copyist, since Tyler's list also shows that Jackson was sent to Pueblo, with the sick detachment under Captain James Brown.)

Henry Johnson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Nicklas Kelly. (Tyler's list. Nicholas Kelly.) Private. Joined for service and enrolled August 31, 1846, at Council Grove. Mustered into service same day, at Council Grove. On detached service since the 15th of September, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel C. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William Kelly. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Kibby. (Tyler's list, James Kibley.) Private. (This and all remaining members of the company were enrolled and mustered at Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 16, 1846.) Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Barnabas Lake. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

James W. Lemmon. (Tyler's list, James W. Lemon.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847, as James J. Lemmon.

Maxiey Maxwell (Tyler's list, Maxie Maxwell.) Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Benjamin F. Mayfield. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

David Moss. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Conroad Nail (Tyler's list, Conrad Naile.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Melcher Oyler. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan. Commanding Army of the West. Died February 26, 1847.

Ebenezer Persons. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John Ritter. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Reenlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Caratall C. Roe. (Tyler's list, Caritat C. Roe.) Private. On detached service since

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John Sessions. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan. Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Richard Sessions. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William B. Sessions. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

George Sexton. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847, as George S. Sexton.

George E. Steele. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, as George Steel

Isiah C. Steele. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, as Isaac Steel

Hamilton Swarthout. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Joseph Taylor. Private. On detached service, 10 M. Department Order No. 12, May 13, 1847. Discharged to date July 16, 1847, at Bear River, Oregon, expiration term of service.

John Thompson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Adna Vredenburgh. (Tyler's list, Adna Vrandenbury.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Wear. (Tyler's list, Thomas Weir.) Private. Corporal to March 9, 1847. Reduced to ranks by Order No. 24, of March 9, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Franklin Weaver. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Miles Weaver. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Charles Y. Webb. Private. On detached service, 10th M. Department No. 12, May 13, 1847. Discharged July 16, 1847, at Bear River, Oregon, expiration of term of service.

Merrill W. Wheeler. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Joseph White Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel White. (Tyler's list, Samuel S. White.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Jeremiah Willey. Private. On detached service, 10th M. Department No. 12, May 13, 1847. Discharged July 16, 1847, at Bear River, Oregon, expiration of term of service.

Alford G. Wilson. (Tyler's list, Alfred G. Wilson.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Dennis Win. (Tyler's list, Dennis Winn.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Lysander Woodworth. Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Isaack N. Wreston. (Tyler's list, Isaac Wreston.) Private. On detached service, Battalion Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John P. Wreston. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Pheannes R. Wright. (Tyler's list, Phineas R. Wright.) Private. Sergeant to March 9, 1847. Reduced to ranks by order No. 24, of March 9, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

TRANSFERRED

James Ferguson. First Sergeant, transferred to Field and Staff October 15, 1846.

R. N. Allred. Sergeant, transferred to Field and Staff February 11, 1847.

RECAPITULATION

    Present for duty: One Captain, one First Lieutenant, one Second Lieutenant, four Sergeants, three Corporals, one Fifer, fifty Privates. Total fifty-eight. Aggregate, sixtyone.

    Extra duty: Three Privates. Sick, four Privates.

    Absent: Detached Service, One Second Lieutenant, one Corporal, one Drummer, thirty Privates. Total, thirty-two. Aggregate, thirty-three.

    Strength, present and absent: One Captain, one First Lieutenant, two Second Lieutenants, four Sergeants, four Corporals, one Drummer, one Fifer, eighty-seven Privates. Total, ninety-seven. Aggregate, one hundred one.

    The Muster Roll concludes with the following certificates: I Certify on Honor, that this Muster Roll exhibits the true state of Captain Jefferson Hunt's Company of' the Mormon Battalion Volunteers, for the period herein mentioned; that each man answers to his own proper name in person; that all remarks set opposite the name of each officer and soldier are accurate and just.

    (Signed) J. HUNT, Captain Company A,
    Commanding the Company.

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     I Certify on Honor, That I have, at Los Angeles, Cal., on this Sixteenth day of July, 1847, carefully examined this roll, and, as far as practicable, caused the allowances, stoppages, and remarks to be justly and properly stated; and mustered the Company for discharge; and it is hereby honorably discharged from the service of the United States.

    (Signed) A. J. SMITH,
    First Lieutenant, First Dragoons,
    Mustering Officer. Muster Station: Los Angeles, Cal. Date of July 16, :1847.

COMPANY B

MUSTER ROLL

of

Captain J. D. Hunter's Company B, of the Mormon Battalion of Foot Soldiers, to the 16th day of July, 1847, when discharged by expiration of term of service.

    It appears that all joined for Service and Enrolled at the General Rendezvous July 16, 1846, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and that all were "Mustered Into Service' at the same place and on the same date. (Those details are therefore omitted on paragraphs which follow. )

J. D. Hunter. (Tyler's list, Jesse D. Hunter.) Captain. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Elim Luddington. (Tyler's list, Elam Luddington.) First Lieutenant. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Ruel Barrus. Second Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted as Second Lieutenant in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

P. C. Merrill (Tyler's list, Philemon C. Merrill.) Second Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal Lieutenant Merrill acted as Adjutant for the Battalion, under Lieutenant Colonel Cooke, on the march from Santa Fe to California.

William Carey. ( Tyler's list, William Corey. ) First Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Hyde. Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Albert Smith. Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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D. P. Rainy (Tyler's list, David P. Rainey.) Promoted to Sergeant March 6, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Dunn Corporal Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John D. Chase. Corporal On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

E. Wilcox (Tyler's list, Edward Wilcox.) Corporal" Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

H. M. Alexander. (Tyler's list, Horace M. Alexander.) Corporal Appointed Corporal March 6, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Hunter. Musician. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

G. W. Taggart. (Tyler's list, George W. Taggart.) Musician. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Elijah Allen. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Franklin Allen. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

George Allen. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

H. W. Bigler. (Tyler's list, Henry W. Bigler.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Erastus Bingham. Private. On detached service Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Thomas Bingham. Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

William Bird. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Robert Bliss. (Tyler's list, Robert S. Bliss.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, Los Angeles, Cal.

John Borrowman. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 13, 1816; was alive in 1889 and lived in Nephi, Juab County, Utah. ["Church Encyclopedia," Historical Record Vol. VIII page 949.]

B. B. Brackenbury. (Tyler's list, Benjamin B. Brackenbury.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Francis Brown. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Richard Bush Private. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847. Los Angeles, Cal.

John Bybee. Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847, as Bibee.

Thomas W. Callahan. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A at Los Angeles, Cal.

J. G. Camp Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

P. J. Carter . (Tyler's list. Philo J. Carter. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Richard Carter. Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Died Nov. 19, 1846.

Zaccheus Cheeney. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. [He, in company with James Bailey, of Company A, made the first brick in San Francisco.]

H. W. Church. (Tyler's list, Haden W. Church.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

G. S. Clark. (Tyler's list, George S. Clark.) Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Philander Colton. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

D. P. Curtis. ( Tyler's list, Dorr P. Curtis. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

H. S. Dalton. (Tyler's list, Henry S. Dalton.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

W. I. Dayton ( Tyler's list, William J. Dayton. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Albert Dunham. Private. Died at San Diego,., May 11, 1847.

Thomas P. Dutcher. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

M. N. Eastman. (Tyler's list, Marcus N. Eastman.) Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

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Israel Evans. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. [He was one of a party to start from Sutter's Fort to pioneer a wagon road over the Sierra Nevada mountains, but the attempt had to be given up on account of the deep snow.]

William Evans. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal, 1847.

William A. Follett. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847. at Los Angeles, Cal.

E. N. Freeman. (Tyler's list, Elijah N. Freeman.) Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Died Nov. 18, 1846. He and Richard Carter were buried in the same grave, four miles south of Secora, on the Rio Grande. ["Mormon Battalion," Historical Record. Vol. VIII page 916. ]

Philip Garner. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

W. A Garner. (Tyler's list, William C. Garner. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Returned to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and became a large land proprietor, and highly respected citizen. [Hon. D. C. Bloomer, in Annals of Iowa, Third Series, Vol. III page 594.]

Ephraim Green. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He, with Wilford Hudson, of Company A, was one of the first who learned of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill,.. and worked placer diggings on an island or sand bar in the Sacramento River, which was subsequently known as Mormon Island. "Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 935.]

E. R. Hanks (Tyler's list, Ephraim R. Hanks.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Silas Harris. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

George Haskill (Tyler's list, George Haskell) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Nathan Hawk. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, Los Angeles, Cal.

William Hawk. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Ezra E. Henkley. (Tyler's list, Arza E. Hinckley.) Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Jacob Hophiens. (Tyler's list, Jacob Hoffheins.) with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Edward Hunter. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Isaiah Huntsman Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

D. H. Jones. (Tyler's list, David H Jones.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

G. M Keyser . (Tyler's list. Guy M. Keyser.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

J. M. King . (Tyler's list, John M. King.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Kirk. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John Lawson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, Los Angeles, Cal.

Nelson McCarty. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

I. B. Martin. (Tyler's list, Jesse B. Martin.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel Miles. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Morris. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

H. B. Mount. (Tyler's list, Hyram B. Mount.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, as Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

John R. Murdock. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Owen Murdock. (Tyler's list, Price Murdock.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel Myers. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Christian Noler. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Robert Owens. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Park. (1st) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 Los Angeles, Cal.

James Park. (2nd.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

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Ephraim Pearson Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

F. D. Persons (Tyler's list, Harmon D. Persons.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as H D. Persons.

William Prowse. (Tyler's list, William Prouse.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

P. F. Richards (Tyler's list, Peter F. Richards.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Samuel H. Rogers. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William A. Simmons. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

J. C. Sly (Tyler's list, James Calvin Sly.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles,. Cal "By the 2nd of July the company was again on the march. Two days' travel from Pleasant Valley, that is about fifty miles east of Sutter's Fort, brought them to Sly's Park, a small valley or mountain dell, thus named for Captain James C. Sly, who first discovered it.... Four days' travel over rough and rugged mountains took them across the summit, and they found themselves safely landed at the head of Carson Valley, Nevada." ["Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 935.]

Azariah Smith . Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, Los Angeles, Cal.

Andrew J Stears. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Lyman Stevens. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Dexter Stillman. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. blustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Rufus Stoddard. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

David Study. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Walker. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John Watts. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

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J. L. Wheeler (Tyler's list, John L. Wheeler.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Travis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

F. T. Whitney Private. On detached service, Order No. 16, of Nov. 10, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Henry Wilcox. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847. at Los Angeles, Cal.

I. J. Willis (Tyler's list, Ira Willis.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

W. L. S. Willis (Tyler's list, W. S. S. Willis.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was one of the first to learn of the discovery of gold on the Sacramento River,. (See Ephraim Green. )

Jacob Winter. (Tyler's list, Jacob Winters.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

O. G. Workman (Tyler's list, Oliver G. Workman.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

Charles Wright. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Jerome Zazrisky . (Tyler's list, Jerome Zabriskie.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., 1847.

RECAPITULATION

    Present for duty: One Captain, two Second Lieutenants, four Sergeants, three Corporals, one Fifer, one Musician, sixty-five Privates. Total enlisted, seventy-four. Aggregate, seventy-seven.

    Absent: On detached service, One First Lieutenant, one Corporal, nineteen Privates. Total enlisted, twenty. Aggregate, twenty-one

    Strength, present and absent: One Captain, one First Lieutenant, two Second Lieutenants, four Sergeants, four Corporals, two Musicians, eighty-four Privates. Total enlisted, ninety-four. Aggregate, ninety-eight. Certificates follow, signed by J. D. Hunter, Captain, and A. J. Smith, Mustering Officer, the same as for Company A.

    The list printed from Tyler's History of the Mormon Battalion contains the following names, which do not appear on the Muster Out Roll furnished us: Orson Billings, Samuel Boley and Peter Fife. The history states that Samuel Boley died July 23, 1846, on the Missouri River, enroute to Fort Leavenworth, a few days after enlisting. ["Mormon Battalion," Historical Record Vol. VIII pages 915-949.]

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COMPANY C

MUSTER ROLL

of

Captain James Brown's Company C, of the Mormon Battalion of Foot Volunteers, to the 16th day of July, 1847, when discharged by expiration of term of service.

    All "Joined for Service and enrolled at the General Rendezvous" July 16, 1846, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and all were "Mustered into Service" at the same place on the same date. (These details are therefore omitted in paragraphs which follow. )

James Brown. Captain. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. He was appointed to take command of a sick detachment sent by Colonel Doniphan from Santa Fe to Pueblo. They marched from Santa Fe Oct. 18, 1846, and arrived at Pueblo Nov. 17, following, where they joined Captain Higgins' detachment, which had been sent from the Arkansas River. He died in Ogden, Utah, Sept. 30, 1865.

George W. Rosecrans. First Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel Thompson. Second Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Robert Clift. ------(Muster Roll shows a dash in place of rank.) Remark on Tyler's list: "Promoted from Orderly Sergeant to Third Lieutenant." Mustered out with company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847, as Junior Second Lieutenant.

Elijah Elmer. First Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847. at Los Angeles, Cal.

Orson B. Adams. Sergeant. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. On the journey of the Mormons through Iowa, after being driven out of Nauvoo, Orson B. Adams was appointed Distributing Commissary of one of the duties into which the organization was divided. The duties of these officers were to make a righteous distribution among their fifties of corn, provision, and such articles which were used for the use of the camp. ["Journeyings in the Wilderness," in Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 885.]

Edwin Martin. Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. In Tyler's list Martin was Third Corporal, and Joel J. Terrill was Third Sergeant.

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Daniel Tyler. Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. This man is the author of "A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion." On his list he is entered as Fourth Corporal After their muster out he acted as one of the Captains of fifties, to lead the members of the Battalion over the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Great Salt Lake Valley. An account of the difficulties and sufferings of that march is given in his History of the Battalion, as we find it quoted in Vol. VIII of the Historical Record, pages 928-933.

Russell G. Brownell First Corporal . (In Tyler's list he appears as Musician.) Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Alexander Brown. Corporal On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William Squires. Corporal On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Thoret Peck (Tyler's list, Thorit Peck.) Appointed Corporal June 2, 1847, by Order No. 26. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847, as Corporal

Richard D. Sprague. Musician. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847, as Musician.

Ezra H. Allen. Musician. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. [This name does not appear in Tyler's list at all]

Wesley Adair Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Lorenzo Babcock. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Addison Bailey. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted In Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Jefferson Bailey. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Walter Barney. Private. Sick. Mustered out with Company July 16, 847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William E. Becksted. (Tyler's list, William E. Beckstad.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

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Abner Blackbourn. (Tyler's list, Abner Blackburn.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John Brimhall Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with Detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Jason J. Brown (Tyler's list, Jesse J. Brown.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Jesse S. Brown.

William Burt. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Birt.

John Calvert. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Isaac Carpenter. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William H. Carpenter. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

George W. Catlin. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Clift. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Stephen Condit. (Tyler's list, Jeptha Condit.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John Q. A. Coral (Tyler's list, John Q. A. Covil Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Edward Dalton. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Harvey Dalton. (Tyler's list, Harry Dalton.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Harry Dalton.

Augustus E. Dodge Private. On extra duty in employ of the Quartermaster. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Neel Donell (Tyler's list, Neal Donald.) Private. Sick. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

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James Dun. (Tyler's list, James Dunn.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as James Dunn.

Francillo Durfy (Tyler's list, Francillo Durphy. ) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Hiram W. Fellows. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

John Fife. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Levi Fifield. Private. On extra duty in employ of the Quartermaster. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Loren Forbush (Tyler's list, Lorin Forbush.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Gibson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John C. Gould. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Samuel Gould. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John Green Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Died Nov. 15, 1846. He died on the road to Santa Fe, from a point on the Rio Grande River, being one of Lieutenant Willis' sick detachment.

Charles Hancock. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

George Hancock. (Tyler's list, George W. Hancock. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Ebenezer Harmon Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Lorenzo F. Harmon. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Melthiah Hatch. (Tyler's list, Meltliah.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Orin Hatch. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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James Hendrickson. Private. On detached service since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. (Tyler does not give this name in Captain Higgins' party)

Thediad Holdaway. (Tyler's list, Shadrach Holdaway.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Holt. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas C. Ivie. Private. On detached service since May 14, 1847, by order of General Kearny. Discharged July 16, 1847. on Bear River, Oregon.

Jarvis Johnson. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Jesse W. Johnson. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William S. Johnson (Tyler's list, William J. Johnson. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Ebenezer Landers. Private. On detached service since May 14, 1847, by order of General Kearny. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River. Oregon.

Thurston Larson Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Christopher Leighton (Tyler's list, Christopher Layton. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel Lewis. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Levi N. McCollough (Tyler's list, Levi H. McCullough.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Benjamin Maygard. (Tyler's list, Benjamin Maggard.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal, July 20, 1847.

Orlando F. Mead Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Henry B. Miller. (This name does not appear on Tyler's list.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Calvin W. Moore. (Tyler's list, Calvin W. More.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Harry Morey. (Tyler's list, Harley Morey.) Private. On detached service Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Harley Mowrey.

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John F. Mowery. (Tyler's list, John T. Mowery.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Myler. Private. Sick. Mustered out with Company July 16, 11847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Javis Nowlan. (Tyler's list, Javis Nowlin.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Hyram Olmstead. (Tyler's list, Hiram Olmstead.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Judson Pearson. (Tyler's list, Judson A. Persons. ) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

lsaac Peck. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Reenlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

George Peckup. (Tyler's list, George Pickup.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

David Perkins (Tyler's list, David Martin Perkins.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John Perkins. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. In Tyler's History of the Mormon Battalion it is stated that, on the 19th of January, 1847, "John Perkins, a fine young man, died at Pueblo, after a lingering illness, and was buried the following day." [Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 919.] It is hard to reconcile this with the official report, that he was mustered out in July. We understand, however, that the muster-out was made from the rolls; that the detached men were not assembled, or seen by the Mustering Officer. [See also M. S. Blanchard, Company A. ]

David Pulsifer. (Tyler's list, David Pulsipher.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Reynolds. Private. On detached service since May 14, 1847, by order of General Kearny. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River, Oregon.

Benjamin Richey. (Tyler's list, Benjamin Richie.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Benjamin Richmond. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Benjamin B. Richmond.

John I. Riser. (Tyler's list, John Jacob Riser.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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William W. Rust. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. In a report of Lieutenant Willis, commanding this detachment, this man is mentioned as Doctor Rust. ["The Mormon Battalion, " in Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 917. ]

Joseph Shiply. (Tyler's list, Joseph Shipley.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Aurora Shumway. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Andrew I. Shupe. (Tyler's list, Andrew Jackson Shupe. ) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by Order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

James Shupe. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as James W. Shupe.

Milton Smith. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Died Oct. 27, 1846.

Richard Smith. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Richard D. Smith.

Joel I. Terrill (Tyler's list, Joel J. Terrill, Third Sergeant.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Elijah Thomas. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Nathan T. Thomas; Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 846, by Battalion Order No. ] 6. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

James L. Thompson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Solomon Tindall Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Jacob N. Truman. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was one of the pioneer company which started May 1, 1848, to pioneer a wagon road over the Sierra Nevada mountains, but abandoned the attempt. [Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 935.]

Elanson Tuttle. Private. On detached service since May 14, 1847, by order of General Kearny. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River, Oregon.

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Edward D. Wade. (Tyler's list, Edward W. Wade.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Moses Wade Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Madison Wealch (Tyler's list, Madison Welsh.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Henry Wheeler. Private Mustered Out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John S. White. (Tyler's list, John J. White.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Mathew Wilcox Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847. at Los Angeles, Cal.

David Wilkey. (Tyler's list, David Wilkin, Fourth Sergeant.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William Wood. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

    The Recapitulation and Certificates were not filled out on the Roll of this Company furnished us.

    Tyler's list contains the following names which do not appear on the Official Roll: (1) Henry G. Boyle; he also appears on Tyler's list as re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A. He was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, March 7, 1824. In 1889 was living in Payson, Utah County, Utah. (2) Henry G. Higbee.

COMPANY D

MUSTER OUT ROLL

of

Captain Nelson Higgins' Company D, of the Mormon Battalion of Foot Volunteers, to the 16th day of July, 1847, when discharged by expiration of term of service.

    All "Joined for Service and Enrolled at the General Rendezvous," July 16, 1846, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and all were "Mustered Into Service" at the same place and on the same date. (Those details are theretofore omitted in paragraphs which follow. ) It also appears on this Roll that all were enrolled and mustered by Lieutenant Colonel J. Allen.

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ROSTER

Nelson Higgns. Captain. On detached service since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. The detachment mentioned above was when he was sent with a guard of ten men to take a party of families that accompanied the Battalion to winter at Pueblo, a Mexican town, located farther up the Arkansas River, now the city of Pueblo; Colorado. He left the main command at the last crossing of the Arkansas River, and remained at Pueblo, with other detachments of sick that were sent there later, until the following May, when they marched to the Great Salt Lake.

George P. Dykes. First Lieutenant. Commanding Company since Oct. 30, 1846. Resigned Adjutancy. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. His full name was George Parker Dykes during the settlement of the Mormons in Caldwell county, Missouri, a regiment of Missouri Militia was organized among them, the officers of which were regularly commissioned by Governor Boggs. In this regiment, Jefferson Hunt (Captain of Company A, of the Battalion) was Major, and George P. Dykes was Lieutenant. When the settlement was broken up by the Missouri authorities, the arms of this regiment, although private property of those who carried them, were taken away by the said authorities. (Historical Record, Vol. VIII, pages 710-960.) "The first Sunday spent by the Battalion at Fort Leavenworth was observed by holding religious services. Elder George P. Dykes preached a kind of military and Gospel sermon, which was his usual style on such occasions. ""Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII, page 913.]

Cyrus C. Canfield. Second Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted as First Lieutenant in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Sylvester Hulett. Second Lieutenant. Resignation accepted April l0. 1847.

Luther Tuttle. First Sergeant. (Tyler's list, Luther T. Tuttle, Third Sergeant.) First Sergeant since March 18, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Williams. Sergeant. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Dohiphan' Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Alpheus P. Hawes Sergeant. (Tyler's list, Alpheus P. Haws, Fourth Sergeant.) Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Abraham Hunsacker. (Tyler's list, Abraham Hunsaker.) Sergeant. Appointed Sergeant March 18, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Arnold Stephens Corporal On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Died at Pueblo, Colo., March 26, 1847,

John Buchanan. Corporal On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

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William Barger. (Tyler's list, William W. Barger.) Corporal Appointed Corporal March 18, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16. 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Sanford Jacobs Corporal Appointed Corporal March 18, 1847. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Willard Smith (Tyler's list, Willard G. Smith.) Musician. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted as Private in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Henry Jackson. (Tyler's list, Henry W. Jackson. ), Musician Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Joshua Abbot. Private. On detached service since Oct.. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Judithan Averitt. (Tyler's list, Jeduthan Averett.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847 Born in Chesterfield County, North Carolina. Living, in 1889, in Springville, Utah County, Utah. ["Church Encyclopedia," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 944.]

Samuel Badham (Tyler's list, Samuel Badlam.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

George W. Boyd. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. George Washington Boyd was born in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Penn., April 12, 1825. Living, in 1889, in Salt Lake City, Utah. ""Church Encyclopedia," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 949.]

William Boyd. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. After his discharge from the army, he remained in California, where he died of chronic dysentery while working in the mines near Sacramento, in 1851. ["Church Encyclopedia," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 949.]

Henry Braizzee. (Tyler's list, Henry Brizzee.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

James Brown. (1st.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Brown (2nd.) (Tyler's list, James S. Brown.) Private. On detached service since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

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Montgomery E. Button (Tyler's list, Montgomery Button. ) Private. On detached service since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment. to date July 16, 1847.

James Casto Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Casto. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Abner Chase. Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Died Nov. 3, 1846.

John Clawson (Tyler's list, John R. Clawson.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847,

James Cole. (Tyler s list, James B. Cole.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Robert Collins. (Tyler's list, Robert H. Collings.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Coons. (Tyler's list, William Coon, Third Corporal ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Amos Cox Private. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River, Oregon. [Roll does not show that he was on detached service.]

Allen Cumpton (Tyler's list, Allen Compton.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16 Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Foster Curtis. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Eleazer Davis. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Davis. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Sterling Davis Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Douglas. (Tyler's list, James Douglass.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Ralph Douglas (Tyler's list, Ralph Douglass.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 76, 1847.

Ezra Fatoute Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

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Thomas Finlay. Private. Enrolled August 14, 1846, at Fort Leavenworth and mustered into service the same date. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Philander Fletcher. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A at Los Angeles, Cal. July 20, 1847.

John Fosgreen (Tyler's list, John E. Fosgren.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Frazer. (Tyler's list, Thomas Frazier.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William B. Gifford (Tyler's list, William W. Gifford.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17. 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment. to date July 16, 1847.

John Gilbert. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Gribble. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William D. Hendricks. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal.

Daniel Henry. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847. at Los Angeles, Cal. as Henrie.

Alfred Higgins. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 6. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

James Hiroms (Tyler's list, James Hirons.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16. 1847. as James P. Herons.

Lucas Hogeland. (Tyler's list, Lucas Hoagland.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Jonathan Holmes. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. .

Dimmick Huntington. (Tyler's list, Dimmick B. Huntington.) Private. On detached service since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Smith. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16 1847, as Dimmick B. Huntington. "October 21, 1846, Mrs. Fanny Huntington, wife of Dimmick B, Huntington, gave birth to a child which died Nov. 9, 1846; on the same day the twin son of Captain. Jefferson Hunt, by his wife Celia, died. Both the little innocents were buried in one grave ["Mormon Battalion," in Historical Record. Vol. VIII page 913.]

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Nathaniel V. Jones. Private, (Tyler's list, First Sergeant.) On detached service since May 14, 1847, by Order No. 12. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River, Oregon. In the history of the Mormon Battalion, in the Historical Record, Vol. V111, based upon Tyler's History, it is stated that three men were detached from each company of the Battalion, to serve as an escort to General Kearny, in traveling from California to Fort Leavenworth. "Among them were N. V. Jones and John W. Binley (Company E). General Kearny left Los Angeles, May 13, 1847, accompanied by Colonel Cooke."

Loren E. Kenny. (Tyler's list, Thomas E., Kenney.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Lisbon Lamb. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847,

Lewis Lane. Private. (Tyler's list, Fourth Corporal) Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

David Laughlin (Tyler's list, David S. Laughlin.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as David Lauchlin.

Henry McArthur. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Maxwell Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was one of those who left Salt Lake Valley after their arrival there, to return to Council Bluffs after their families. ["Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 931.]

Erastus Meecum. (Tyler's list, E. D. Mecham.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Mecham.

Peter B. Meeseck. (Tyler's list, Peter J. Meeseck.) Private. On detached service since Oct., 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Peter I. Mesick.

Ferdinand Murrell (Tyler's list, Ferdinand Merril) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Oakely. (Tyler's list, James Oakley.) Private. On detached service since Oct., 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Oakley.

James Owens. (Tyler's list, James Owen. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Edwin M. Peck. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis, new Company A, July 20, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Charles Perrin. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Pettigrew. (Tyler's list, James Pettegrew.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Daniel B. Rawson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Alonzo P. Raymond. (Tyler's list, Almon P. Raymond.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Richmond. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Benjamin Roberts. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William J. Robinson. (Tyler's list, William Robinson.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John Rollins. Private Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Rowe. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Levi Runyan. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Henry W. Sanderson. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Levi Savage. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Abel M. Sergent (Tyler's list, Abel M. Sargent.) Private. On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Albert Sharp. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Norman Sharp. Private. He was enrolled August 30, 1846, at Council Grove, and mustered into service the same day. Died on the Arkansas River September 28, 1846. Detached service, since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel CA J. Smith.

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Sebert C. Shelton. Private. On detached service since Sept. 17, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Smith. Reduced to the ranks from Quartermaster Sergeant, and transferred to Company D, by Battalion Order of Nov. 8, 1846. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John G. Smith. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

William W. Spencer. Private. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River, Oregon. [Roll does not show that he was on detached service.] "On the 20th of August, 1842, William W. Spencer was appointed in Nauvoo, Bishop of the district East of the city, and North of Knight Street." ["Nauvoo" Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 765.]

John Steel (Tyler's list, John Steele.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Alexander Stephens. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Clarke Stillman. (Tyler's list, Clark Stillman.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Benjamin Stuart (Tyler's list, Benjamin Stewart.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Stewart.

James Stuart. (Tyler's list, James Stewart.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16 Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Robert B. Stuart. (Tyler's list, Robert B. Stewart.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Nathan Swartoute. (Tyler's list, Nathan Swarthout.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Myron Tanner. Private On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847.

Hayward Thomas. (Tyler's list, Thomas Hayward.) On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Miles Thompson. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

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John Tippets. (Tyler's list, John H. Tippetts. ) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. Tyler also reports him detached with Captain Higgins' guards from the Arkansas River, Sept. 17, 1846. See Thomas Woolsey, Co. E It appears from Tyler's History of the Mormon Battalion that, after remaining at Pueblo until Dec. 23, John H. Tippetts and Thomas Woolsey (Company E) left there alone and without a guide to take money to their families and friends at the place they called Winter Quarters, on the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs, where Florence, Nebraska, now stands. It being in the dead of winter, the journey was a hazardous and perilous one, but they arrived safely Feb. 15, 1847, at the house of Brigham Young. The following April the two soldiers joined the Company of Mormons there, who became known as the Pioneers of 1847, led by Brigham Young, who set out for Great Salt Lake Valley, to select their new abiding place. The pioneers on their march were divided into Hundreds, Fifties, and Tens. Tippetts is registered as one of the Eleventh Ten.

    When near Fort Laramie, on the West Platte River, Apostle Amasa M. Lyman took Tippetts, Woolsey, and another man, and left the column to meet the Pueblo detachments, who had left that place on their way to Salt Lake. The junction of the two parties was made on the 11th of June, on Lodge Pole Creek, and they proceeded from there on to their destination in the Mormon's new home. [ "Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII pp. 920, 921, 939.]

Thomas Treat. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Tubbs.(Tyler's list, William R Tubbs.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Anciel Twichel (Tyler's list, Anciel Twitchel) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal

Edward Walker. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847

Almon Whiting. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Edmond Whiting. (Tyler's list, Edmund Whiting.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Francis Woodward. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

    Tyler's list contains the names of Erastus Bingham and Henry Thompson, who do not appear on the Official Roll, but Tyler also gives the name of Erastus Bingham as one of Company B, in which he agrees with the Muster Out Roll

    The recapitulation and certificates were not filled out on the Roll of this Company furnished us.

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COMPANY E

MUSTER OUT ROLL

of

Daniel C. Davis' Company E, of the Mormon Battalion, the 16th day of July, 1847, when discharged by expiration of term of service

    All "Joined for Service and Enrolled at the General Rendezvous," July 16, 1846, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and all were "Mustered Into Service" at the same place and on the same date. (Those details are therefore omitted In paragraphs which follow ) It also appears that all were enrolled and mustered by Lieutenant Colonel J. Allen.

Daniel C. Davis. Captain. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Elected Captain by new Company A, which re-enlisted at Los Angeles, Cal., on July 20, 1847.

James Pace. First Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He and Lieutenant Andrew Lytle were appointed Captains of Hundreds when they, with discharged soldiers, set out for their march from Los Angeles, by way Sutter's Fort across the mountains to Great Salt Lake on July 20, 1847. He was selected as one of the Superintendents of Labor, in the settlement made by the Mormons, on Grand River, Iowa, to which the name of Garden Grove was given. [Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 885.]

Andrew Lytle. Second Lieutenant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. See James Pace, for part taken by Lytle in the march of the discharged Battalion to Great Salt Lake.

Samuel Gully. Second Lieutenant (Tyler's list, Samuel L. Gully, Third Lieutenant.) Resignation accepted October 19, 1846, at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Edmund L. Brown. (Tyler's list, Samuel L. Brown.) First Sergeant Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted as First Sergeant in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Richard Brazier; Sergeant. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Ebenezer Hawks. Sergeant On detached service since October 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Daniel Browett. Sergeant. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. He was Captain of a company of eight persons who attempted on May 1, 1848, to pioneer a new road over the Sierra Nevada Mountains and were obliged to give up the attempt on account of the deep snow. On another attempt made by him and two others, in June, Browett and his companions were all killed by the Indians. [See Henderson Cox, Company A.]

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Stephen M. St. John. Corporal Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas R. Burns. Corporal On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

James C. Scott. Corporal On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Died Feb. 17, 1847, at Pueblo, New Mexico "On the 5th of February another death occurred, that of James C. Scott, a promising young man, who died after a short illness of winter fever and liver complaint. He was buried with the honors of war." ["Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 919.]

John M. Ewell (Tyler's list, Martin F. Ewel) Corporal Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Levi W. Hancock. Fifer. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. [In Tyler's History, he is mentioned in one place as President Levi W. Hancock, and is spoken of as a man of advanced age, who aided in maintaining order and good feeling by advice and speeches to the Brethren.]

Justus Earl (Tyler's list, Jesse Earl) Drummer. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted as Private in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Joseph Bates. (This name does not appear on Tyler's list.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Beddome. Private. Enrolled at Fort Leavenworth, August 4, 1846; mustered into service the same date. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. (This man does not appear on Tyler's list.)

William Beere. (Tyler's list, William Beers. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John W. Benley. (Tyler's list, John Wesley Binley.) Private. On detached service, 10th Military Department, Order No. 12, of May 14, 1847. Discharged July 16, 1847, place not stated. Born at Bellefontaine, Logan County) Ohio, April 18, 1814 In 1889 was yet alive, and residing temporarily at East Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah. [ See Nathaniel V. Jones, Company D, for more of his detached service.]

Daniel Brown. Private. On detached service Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Newman Bulkley. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Born at Catherine, Cayuga (now Schuyler) County, New York, August 18, 1817; was living in 1889, and residing in Springville, Utah.

Edward Bunker. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Mathew Caldwell Private. On detached service, 10th Military Department, Order No. 12, of May 14, 1847. Discharged July 16, 1847, on Bear River, Oregon.

Jonathan Campbell Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel Campbell. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James Cazier. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date uly 16, 1847.

John Cazier. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Samuel Chapin. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Albert Clark. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Joseph Clark. (This name does not appear on Tyler's list.) Private Mustered out with Company July 16 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Samuel G. Clark. (Tyler's list, Samuel Clark.) Private. On detached service, Tenth Military Department, Order No. 12, of May 14, 1847 Discharged at Bear River, Oregon, July 16, 1847. Tyler records him as in the detachment sent back to Pueblo, Oct. 17, 1846, which is probably wrong.

John Cox. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

George Cummings. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Walter L. Davis. (This name does not appear on Tyler's list. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Abraham Day. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Daniel Q. Dennett. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Simon Dike. (Tyler's list, Simon Dyke.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Jacob Earle. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

William F. Ewell (Tyler's list, William Ewell) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Frederick Fauney. ( This name does not appear on Tyler's list. ) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William T. Follett. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Luther W. Glazier. (Tyler's list, Luther William Glazier.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Oliver M. Harman. ( Tyler's list, Oliver M. Harmon. ) Private. Mustered out with the Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Robert Harris. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Isaac Harrison. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

James S. Hart. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Henry Haskins, (Tyler's list, Henry Hoskins.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

John W. Hess. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

John Hickmott. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Charles Hopkins. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Thomas C.D. Howell Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Bailey Jacobs. Private. On detached service since Oct., 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Charles Jamieson. (Tyler's list, Charles Jimmerson.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Hiram Judd. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Zadok Judd. (Tyler's list, Zadock K. Judd.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Karran (Tyler's list, Thomas Karren.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

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George Kelley. Private. Mustered out with. Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Albert Knapp, Private Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William Lance Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Harlem McBride. (Tyler's list, Haslem McBride.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William C. McCelland. (Tyler's list, William E. McLelland.) Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as McClelan.

Daniel Miller. (Tyler's list, Daniel M. Miller.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Miles Miller. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

William A. Park. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

David Pettigrew. (Tyler's list, David Pettegrew.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. A man of age and experience who influenced the other men by prudent council ["Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 924.]

Alva Phelps. Private. Died at the crossing of the Arkansas River, Sept. 16, 1846. (Tyler reports this man as a member of the Company, but does not mention his death.)

Robert Pixton. Private Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Sanford Porter. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Jonathan Pugmire. (Tyler's list, Jonathan Pugmire, Jr.) Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Thomas Richardson. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

Levi Roberts. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Richard T. Saunders. (Tyler's list, Richard T. Sanders.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

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Leonard M. Scott. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Joseph Skeen. (Tyler's list, Joseph Skien.) Private, On detached qservice since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out qwith detachment, to date July 16, 1847, as Skean.

Richard Slater. Private. Mustered out with company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

David Smith Private. Died at San Luis Rey, Cal., March 23, 1847.

Luther Smith. (Tyler's list, Lot Smith.) Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847, as Lott Smith

John Spidle Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Henry Standage. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Roswell Stephens. (Tyler's list, Roswell Stevens.) Private On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. It appears in Tyler's History that, on Oct. 19, 1846, Roswell Stevens started for Council Bluffs, in company with Lieutenant Samuel L. Gulley, John D. Lee, and Howard Egan, who carried the checks the brethren were sending home to their families. He returned the following summer with John H. Tippetts and others. (See John H. Tippetts, Company D.) He thus appears registered among the "Pioneers" of 1847. "Mormon Battalion," Historical Record, Vol. VIII pages 916, 920, 939.]

William Strong. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Albert M. Tanner. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

Benjamin West. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

Robert Whitworth (Tyler's list, William Whitworth.) Private. Enrolled Aug. 4, 1846, at Fort Leavenworth, and mustered the same date. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.

James V. Williams. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Re-enlisted in Captain Davis' new Company A at Los Angeles, Cal., July 20, 1847.

George Wilson. Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847.

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Thomas Woolsey. Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. According to Tyler's History, Woolsey was detached, with Captain Higgins' party, Sept. 17, 1846, and he also tells the story about how Woolsey and John H. Tippetts made a trip back to winter quarters on the Missouri river. [See John H. Tippetts, Company D.] He also gives Woolsey's name as one of Lieutenant Willis' sick detachment, which agrees with the Official Roll The explanation probably is that some of Captain Higgins' party returned to the Battalion at Santa Fe, after their arrival at Pueblo. This hypothesis has some support from the clause in Lieutenant Colonel P. St. George Cooke's Journal, in which, writing at Santa Fe Oct. 13th, he says: "Captain Higgins was ordered to join the Battalion with his party." It does not appear that Higgins did return to the Battalion before its departure for California, but some of his men might have done so.



John Allen. Private. Drummed out of service by sentence of General Court Martial, May 28 1847. The "Church Encyclopedia," in Historical Record, Vol. VIII page 942, contains this item: "John Allen, a non Mormon, who was drummed out of service in the Mormon Battalion."

    On Tyler's list the following names appear which are not on the Muster Roll: George Allen, Justice C. Earle, John Findlay, Israel Harrison, William Howell, ----- Rollins, L. Richards James R. Scott, John Snyder, Elisha Smith, John Smith.

    It will be noted that on the Muster Roll five names appear that are not on Tyler's list, namely: Bates, Beddome, Joseph Clark, Davis and Fauney.

    The Recapitulation and Certificates were not filled out on the Roll of this Company furnished us.

SERVANTS TO OFFICERS

    The following names of young men and boys, who served as servants to officers in the Mormon Battalion, were sent in to Daniel Tyler for publication in his History of the Battalion. He says they were mostly too young to be received as soldiers, felt that they are entitled to much praise for their youthful patriotism and bravery. There were probably others whose names were not given:

Charles Edwin Colton, servant to Adjutant P. C. Merrill.

N D. Higgins, servant to Captain Nelson Higgins.

James Mowrey, servant to Lieutenants George W. Rosecrans, Samuel Thompson and Robert Clift.

William Byron Pace, servant to Lieutenant James Pace.

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William D. Pace, servant to Lieutenant Andrew Lytle.

Zemira Palmer, servant to Colonel James Allen until his death, to Dr. George B. Sanderson from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, thence to Lieutenant Lorenzo Clark until the corps was discharged.

Elisha Smith, servant to Captain Daniel C. Davis.

FAMILIES

    Following is the list of families who accompanied the Battalion:

Mrs. Celia Hunt wife of Senior Captain Jefferson Hunt; sons: Hyrum, .John, Joseph, Parley; daughters: Jane, Harriet, Mary; second wife, Matilda; in the family: Peter Nease, Ellen Nease, John Bosco and wife, Jane.

Mrs. Lydia Hunter, wife of Captain Jesse D. Hunter, of Company B, died at San Diego; left an infant and perhaps other children.

Mrs. Mary Brown, wife of Captain James Brown of Company C, son: David Black, and some children by first wife.

Mrs. Nelson Higgins, wife of Captain Higgins, of Company D; sons: Alpheus Don Carlos; daughters: Druzilla, Almira (married John Chase at Pueblo) and one child born at Pueblo.

Mrs. Susan Davis, wife of Captain Daniel C. Davis, of Company E, son Daniel C. Davis, Jr.

Mrs. Ruth Abbott.

Mrs. Susan Adams, wife of Sergeant Orson B. Adams.

Mrs. Eliza Allred, wife of J. T. S. Allred.

Mrs. Elzada Allred, wife of Reuben Allred.

Mrs. Agnes Brown, wife of Sergeant Edward L. Brown.

Mrs.Eunice Brown, wife of James P. Brown; sons: Robert, Newman, John (born while traveling between Pueblo and Salt Lake Valley); daughters: Sarah Jane and Mary Ann.

Mrs. Harriett Brown, wife of Daniel Brown.

Mrs. Phebe Brown, wife of Sergeant Ebenezer Brown.

Mrs. Montgomery Button; sons: James, Jutson, Charles; daughter, Louisa.

Mrs. Melissa Coray, wife of Sergeant Coray.

Mrs. Jane Hanks, wife of Sergeant Ebenezer Hanks.

Mrs. Emmeline Hess, wife of John Hess.

Mrs. Mary Ann Hirons, wife of James Hirons.

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Mrs. Fanny Maria Huntington, wife of Dimmick B. Huntington; sons: Clark Allen, Lot; daughters: Martha, Zina, Betsy Prescinda (born at Pueblo).

Mrs. Sarah Kelley, wife of Nicholas Kelley; son: Parley.

Mrs. Malinda Kelly, wife of Milton Kelly; daughter Malinda Catherine (born at Pueblo, now wife of Benjamin L. Alexander).

Miss Caroline Sargent.

Mrs. Caroline Sessions, wife of John Sessions.

Mrs. Norman Sharp; daughter born at Pueblo.

Mrs. Elizabeth Shelton, wife of Sergeant Sebert C. Shelton; sons: Jackson Mayfield, John Mayfield; daughters: Sarah Mayfield, Caroline Shelton, Maria Shelton.

Mrs. Sarah Shupe, wife of Andrew Jackson Shupe.

Mrs. Rebecca Smith, wife of Elisha Smith.

Mrs. Catherine Steele, wife of John Steele; daughter: Mary; also young Elizabeth (born twelve days after arriving in Salt Lake Valley).

Mrs. Sophia Tubbs, wife of William Tubbs.

Mrs. Isabella Wilkin, wife of David Wilkin.

Mrs. Albina Williams, wife of Thomas S. Williams; son: Ephraim; daughters: Caroline, Phebe (the latter born at Pueblo).

    There may have been a few others not reported, as all were collected from memory.

NEW COMPANY A

    When the Mormon Battalion was mustered out of service at Los Angeles, on the expiration of their term of service, July 16, 1847, the opportunity was given them to reenlist for during the war. The Church Officers did not favor their continuing in service, but enough finally enrolled themselves to make up a company.

    Daniel C. Davis, formerly Captain of Company E, became Captain of the new company, and the other officers, non-commissioned officers and privates were pretty well distributed among the old companies. The Muster Out Roll shows that the company was all enrolled July 20, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal., by Captain D. C. Davis, and that all were mustered into service on the same date and at the same place by A. J. Smith, First Lieutenant, First Dragoons.

    The Roll also shows that all were mustered out with the company March 14, 1848, at San Diego, Cal., except Lieutenant Robert Clift, detached, and two deaths. The Muster Roll concludes with the following ending: "This company was mustered into service, pursuant to authority of Colonel Mason, on the 20th day of July, 1847, for one year, they reserving a right to claim a discharge on the first of March, 1848, and

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the transportation allowance for Volunteers to be allowed them either to the Bay of San Francisco, or the Great Salt Lake, into which the Great Bear River empties. In the month of November, 1847, they were advised that, if they were discharged before the expiration of one year, they would not receive either bounty land or Government script. They claimed their discharge on the 1st of March, thereby agreeing to relinquish all claims to land or script, and have received their transportation allowance of 50 cents for every twenty miles travel home( to the Great Salt Lake)."

ROSTER

Daniel C. Davis. Captain. From Captain Company E.

Cyrus C. Canfield. First Lieutenant. From Second Lieutenant Company D.

Ruel Barrus. Second Lieutenant. From Second Lieutenant Company B.

Robert Clift. Second Lieutenant. From Lieutenant Company C. On detached service at Los Angeles, Cal., by order of Colonel J. D. . Stevenson Final record not found.

Edmund L. Brown. (Tyler's list, Samuel L. Brown.) First Sergeant. From First Sergeant Company F.

Samuel Myers. Sergeant. From private in Company B.

Benjamin F. Mayfield. Sergeant. From private in Company A.

Henry Packard. Sergeant. From Corporal in Company A.

Thomas Peck. (Tyler's list, Thoril Peck. ) Corporal From Corporal in Company C.

Isaac Harrison. Corporal From private in Company E.

Hiram B. Mount. Corporal From private in Company B.

Edwin Walker. Corporal From private in Company D.

Richard D. Sprague. Musician. From Musician in Company C.

Henry W Jackson. Musician. From Musician in Company D.

Addison Baily. (Tyler's list, Addison Bailey.) Private. From private in Company C.

Jefferson Baily. (Tyler's list, Jefferson Bailey.) Private. From private in Company C.

Gordon S. Beckstead. Private. From private in Company A.

Orin Beckstead. (Tyler's list, Orin M. Beckstead.) Private. From private in Company A.

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Henry Bowing. Private. This name does not appear in either of the original companies.

Benjamin Brass. Private. From private in Company A.

Henry W. Brazzee. (Tyler's list, Henry W. Brizzee. ) Private. From private in Company D.

William W. Brown. Private. From private in Company A.

John Bryant. (Tyler's list, John S. Bryant.) Private. From private in Company A.

Thomas Calahan. (Tyler's list, Thomas William Callahan.) Private. From private in Company B.

Edward R. Calkins. Private. From private in Company A.

Philo J. Carter. Private. From private in Company B.

Riley G. Clark. Private. From private in Company A.

John Clawson. (Tyler's list, John R. Clawson.) Private. From private in Company D.

James Clift. Private. From private in Company C.

Jeptha Condit. Private. From private in Company C.

John C. CoviL (Tyler's list, John Q. A. Covil) Private. From Private in Company C.

Willard T. Dayton. (Tyler's list, William J. Dayton.) Private. From Private in Company B.

Neal Donald. Private. From private in Company C. Died at San Diego, Cal., Nov. 6, 1847.

Thomas P. Dutcher. Private. From private in Company B

Jacob Earl Private. From private in Company E.

Justus Earl (Tyler's list, Justice C. Earl) Private. From musician in Company E.

William Evans. Private. From private in Company B.

Ezra Fatoute. Private. From private in Company D.

Hiram W. Fellows. Private. From private in Company C.

Philander Fletcher. Private. From private in Company D.

Lafayette Frost. Sergeant. From Second Corporal in Company A, in which he enrolled as Lafayette N. Frost. Died at San Diego, Cal., Sept. 8, 1847. In Lieutenant Colonel Cooke's diary he mentions a case of remarkable coolness and daring on the part of this soldier. [See page 48, in History. ]

Ebenezer Harmon. Private. From private in Company C.

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Lorenzo Harmon. (Tyler's list, Lorenzo F. Harmon.) Private. From private in Company C.

Oliver Harmon. (Tyler's list, Oliver N. Harmon.) Private. From private in Company E.

James S. Hart. Private. From private in Company E.

William F. Hickenlooper. (Tyler's list, William Hickenlooper.) Private. From private in Company A.

James Kibbey. (Tyler's list, James W. Kibley.) Private. From private in company A.

William Lance Private. From private in Company E.

James J. Lemmon (Tyler's list, James Lemmon.) Private. From private in Company A.

Harlan McBride. (Tyler's list, Haslem McBride.) Private. From private in Company E.

Benjamin Maggard. Private. From private in Company C.

Henry B. Miller Private. From private in Company C. This name does not appear in Tyler's list.

Thomas Morris. Private. From private in Company B.

James Mowry. (Tyler's list, James Mowrey.) Private. It appears by Tyler's History that he served as servant to G. W. Rosecrans, Samuel Thompson and Robert Clift in the original companies.

John F. Mowry. (Tyler's list, John T. Mowrey.) Private. From private in Company C.

Conrad NeaL (Tyler's list, Conrad Naile.) Private. From private in Company A.

Christian Nowler. (Tyler's list, Christian Noler.) Private. From private in Company B.

James Park. Private. From private in Company B.

Edwin M. Peck. Private. From private in Company D.

Isaac Peck. Private. From private in Company C.

Peter F. Richards. Private. From private in Company B.

John J. Riser. Private. From private in Company C.

John Ritter. Private. From private in Company A.

Levi Runyan. Private. From private in Company D.

George S. Sexton. Private. From private in Company A.

Aurora Shumway. Private. From private in Company C.

Lott Smith. (Tyler's list, Lot Smith.) Private. From private in Company E.

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William Smith. Private. From Musician in Company D, where he enrolled as Willard Smith.

George Steel (Tyler's list, George Steele.) Private. From private in Company A.

Isaac Steel (Tyler's list, Isaiah Steele.) Private. From private in Company A.

Amdrew G. Steers (Tyler's list, Andrew Steers.) Private. From private in Company B.

Miles Thompson. Private. From private in Company D.

John Watts. Private. From private in Company B.

Benjamin West. Private. From private in Company E.

Henry Wheeler. Private. From private in Company C.

John L. Wheeler. Private. From private in Company B.

James V Williams. Private. From private in Company E.

Jacob Winterm. (Tyler's list, Jacob Winters.) Private. From private In Company B.

Andrew Workman. (Tyler's list, Andrew J. Workman.) Private. From private in Company B.

Oliver Workman. (Tyler's list, Oliver G. Workman.) Private. From private in Company B.

Nathan Young. Private. This name does not appear on the rolls of either of the original companies.

Jerome Zabrisky. (Tyler's list, Jerome Zabriskie.) Private. From Private in Company B.

    Tyler's list contains a name in Davis' new company which does not appear on the official roll: Henry G. Boyle. [See Note of Company C.] The Recapitulation and Certificates were not filled out on Rolls furnished us.



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