Polk County Soldiers

Taken from Centennial History of Polk County, by J. M. Dixon, printed 1876

First Battery

This was commanded by Captain H. H. Griffiths, of Des Moines. 

The names of the dead are: Lieutenant Selah M. Titus,  William Seldon,  George Howard,  Wm. H. Callender,  Wm. McMichael, Harmon T. Myerhoff,  John Johnson,  Jon D. Callender, and Robert F. Reeder.

Second Battery

The names of the dead are:  Romulus Bullotph,  John Jones,  John Kuntz, and Peter H. Lee

Other Union Battery/Artillery Regiments

Eighty-Ninth Illinois Volunteers,  James Nicholas

Twenty-First Missouri, Geo. R. Spencer

Second Nebraska, Wm. A. McClain

Ninety-Seventh Ohio, Lieutenant Geo. F. Jack, drowned in Raccoon river, with Asher Holcomb, April 19th, 1867, and George Corwin Goodrell

First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Benjamin M. Orwig