Fallen Soldiers of Polk County, Iowa

Taken from The Centennial History of Polk County, by J. M. Dixon, Blind Editor, published 1876

Thirty-Fourth Infantry

Colonel G. W. Clark, breveted Brigadier General at the close of the war, was a lawyer at Indianola at the time he went into the service.  Subsequently he was appointed U. S. Marshal for the District of Iowa.  He is a gentleman of fine legal and military ability. 

The dead of this regiment are John S. Davis and James M. Elliott

Thirty - Ninth Infantry

Company B and I, of this regiment, were organized in Polk County, and were mustered into the service November 24th, 1862.  The Regiment rendezvoused at Des Moines.  Its commissioned officers belonging to our County were, Col. Joseph M. Griffiths, Adjutant George C. Tichenor, Captains John H. Dykeman, Andrew T. Blodgett, Augustus Yerger and Robert C. Hunter; Lieutenants Franklin R. Thurbur, William A Patterson and Erastus Scott. 

The dead of this Regiment, are Capt. A. T. Blodgett, killed with Lieut. Col. Redfield at Altoona, Oct. 5th, 1864,  Sergeant Robert Francis Ward, William H. Chamberlain; Nicholas W. Simmons, Hudson Harrison, Thomas O. Taylor, Samuel E. Thornton, Francis Marion Lowe, Daniel T. Keeney, Henry H. Elliott, Andrew Cefley, John E. Mills, Cornelius S. Gaddis, James G. Leonard, Isaac Miller, Corporal William B. Sanford, Joshua Adamson, Lawson A. Smith.

Forty-Fourth

Listed as deceased is John Henry Rittgers

Forty-Seventh

Company F of this Regiment was organized in 1864, under the direction of Major George J. North, Military and Private Secretary of Governor Stone.  He died about the close of the war

The names of commissioned officers of Company F. belonging to our County, are Maj. George J. North, Capt. David J. Pattee, Lieutenants Weldon England and Josiah M. Vale.

The dead of this Company, are William B. Herring, Millard F. Rollins, John L. McClelland, Miles D. Mattern, Simon M. Chenowith, Edward W. Peet, William C. Sampson, Lorenzo L. Robinson, Benjamin A. Brooks, Theodore F. Vestal , Thor Fatland, and Felix McCarty.