of
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 192-194
COMPANY C, FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT. Company C of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, Iowa National Guards, is stationed at Muscatine and has contributed no small share in making the reputation of the regiment state wide. The Fifty-fourth was organized February 18, 1876, one of the first military organizations to be formed in the state since the Civil war. Responding to a strong demand, Colonel Alexander McQueen took up the work of organization and in a short time a number of companies were raised, which became the units of regiments about to be formed. Colonel McQueen became commander of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, with headquarters at Keokuk. Since that time the following have been in chief command of the Fifty-fourth: G. A. Henry, Keosaqua; Samuel C. Farmer, Fairfield; H. H. Wright, Centerville, and later adjutant general of Iowa; Park W. McManus, Davenport; James A. Guest, Burlington, later adjutant general of the state; D. V. Jackson, Muscatine; E. E. Lambert, Newton; F. E. Caughlin, Ottumwa; F. W. Bishop.
The Fifty-fourth has high rank in rifle shooting and has a number of trophies to its credit. At the time of the Spanish-American war this regiment was called out by the governor and April 26, 1898, Company C left Muscatine to go into camp at Des Moines. The company was in charge of the following officers: Captain, F. W. Bishop, and First Lieutenant Dolsen. At that time the regiment had not the required number of men in its companies and Sergeant Lyle Horton was sent back from Des Moines to Muscatine for recruits, in which he was successful and in July the regiment went into quarters in Camp "Cuba Libre," at Jacksonville, Florida, where the boys remained, "eating their hearts out," with impatience, disappointment and mortification until the latter part of September, when they were sent back to Iowa and after thirty days' furlough were mustered out of the service on the 30th day of November, 1898, without striking a blow at the hated Dons, or leaving their native soil. This was a source of intense disappointment and bitterness of spirit to Company C but the actual camp experience of its members was of more than ordinary value from a military standpoint.
Full roster of Company C in the Spanish-American war follows:
Captain, Frank W. Bishop; first lieutenant, Frank T. Dolsen; second lieutenant, Jacob L. Smeenk.
SERGEANTS. First sergeant, Chester A. S. Howard; quartermaster sergeant, Harry Kern; Charles U. Frack; Andrew Link; Fred Norwood; James L. Horton.
CORPORALS. Edward A. Erb, William Powers, Joseph R. Hanley, John J. Brees, William Schoenig, Albert Capps, Benjamin Hannan, Emil Moore, Ralph Lillibridge. Musician, Joseph King. Artificer, Winne C. Strong. Wagoner, Frederick A. Deutschman.
PRIVATES. George Albrand, Bert Ames, J. Edward Anderson, Guy B. Baker, Charles A. Baldwin, John N. Berry, Chester Bridgman, Frederick E. Bogart, Fred Bosten, C. B. Bond, George Bullis, John Cooney, Lloyd Covertson, Earl Cromer, Glen Carlisle, George M. Dallas, Louis Dondar, Emery Duncan, James Earl, Lon L. Eldred, Bert Eldred, Milton Frack, Clyde Frack, Henry J. Fuller, Carl Garver, Fred Groth, Robert Hackett, George Halstead, Almon Hayworth, William Heitman, William Hillmer, James B. Hill, Frank 0. Horton, Charles Hubbard, Roy Hendrix, Fred Hogue, Jesse Holt, George Ingham, Lee Jarboe, Samuel Jamison, Louis Knopp, Benjamin Kramer, Louis Kautz, William Killough, William Lamar, Otto Leindecker, Henry J. Leindecker, Henry Lemkau, Charles Lindner, Wallace Longstreth, Harry Ludlow, George Luckhardt, John W. Lilly, Frank Lewis, Willard Lewis, Willard Lindsay, B. E. Lockwood, Frank S. McCoy, Lemuel Massey, Joseph W. Morrison, Harry Marshall, Fred Martin, William McCullough, Ralph Neidig, Charles Nichols, Joseph E. Norwood, William C. Ochiltree, Pleasant Parish, Hugh Paisley, Frank Paisley, Arthur Rankin, Fred Reed, Fred Rohrback, Glen Rehmel, Earl Reynolds, Louis Robertson, Hugo Schlipf, Emery Smith, William Schenck, Carl Tiecke, Archie Tyler, Harry Thompson, Cleod Thompson, Carl Thompson, Charles Timm, Andrew Vetter, Henry Von Krog, Garrett Wiggers, John Wilson, George Young.
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