CHAPTER XXVII - MILITARY HISTORY

In less than ten years after the organization of Shelby county as a civil unit, the great Civil War broke fiercely upon the country. Shelby county had scarcely passed the log-cabin stage of development, when men were traveling to mill and market over the winding trails, along the ridges and plateaus and skirting the heads of streams, then unbridged, and when the prairies and sloughs of the county were yet furnishing sustenance and refuge for wild animals. Under these circumstances it was that the young men of Shelby county were called upon to assume the stern responsibilities of their citizenship in common with the other people of Iowa. Shelby county went to the defense of the colors right loyally, sending, it is estimated, one man out of every six then resident within her newly created boundaries. These volunteers came from Cuppy’s Grove, Bowman’s Grove, Manteno, Hacktown and Harlan.

“THE OLD GUARD.” UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR RESIDING IN SHELBY COUNTY.
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1. J.H. Reynolds, H. 7th Ia. Cav.; F, 8th Ia. Inf.		26. David W. Green, G, 47th Ia. Inf.
2. S. S. Chamberlain, G. 13th Ill. Inf.		27. J. V. Watson, M, 9th Ia. Cav.
3. F. S. Kays, B, 4th Ia. Cav.		28. J. S. Dee, G, 7th Mo. Cav.
4. Theodore Asquith, C, 102d Ill. Inf.		29. M. Quick, B, 10th W. Va. Inf.
5. J. H. Blaine, I, 17th Pa. Cav.		30. Thomas Brown, B, 75th Ill. Inf.
6. John G. Honeywell, E, 86th Ill. Inf.; also H, 47th Ill. Inf.		31. W. H. Brown, B, 2d Ill. Mounted Inf.
also H, 47th Ill. Inf.		32. H. Watkins, A, 92d Ohio Inf.
7. Wm. Laughman, 104th Ill. Inf.		33. James F. Smith, I, 23d Ia. Inf.
8. John Bare, F, 24th Ia. Inf.		34. C. D. O’Neal, A, 33d Ia. Inf.
9. Ira Grabill, F, 86th Ill. Inf.		35. J. J. Marco, C, 92d Ill. Inf.
10. W. J. Blair, I, 7th Ia. Inf.		36. N. E. Palmer, K, 100th Ind. Inf.
11. Theodore M. Keeney, H, 52d Pa. Inf.		37. Walter R. Parker, B, 100th Ind. Inf.
12. J. B. Wade, M, 17th Ill. Cav.		38. W. H. Erret, I, 126th Ill. Inf.
13. E. F. Kingston, I, 57th Ill. Inf.		39. D. E. Morris, H, 57th Ill. Inf.
14. M. L. McLyman, C, 20th Wis. Inf.		40. S. F. Kohl, K, 8th Ia. Cav.
15. John Huffman, F, 31st Ind. Inf.		41. John Koolbeck, F, 4th Ia. Cav.
16. Bernard McAllister A, 15th Ia. Inf.		42. Dr. E. A. Cobb, A, 55th Ohio Inf.
17. Lemuel Stilwell, B, 98th Ohio Inf.		43. B. B. Bowen, L, 4th W. Va. Cav.
18. Garret Hubbell, D, 192d Ohio Inf.		44. Theodore P. Anstine, I, 78th Ill. Inf.
19. H. W. Winder, D, 33d Ia. Inf.		45. Geo. D. Ross, G, 21st Wis. Inf.
20. James P. Gilmore, G, 31st Ia. Inf.		46. N. White, L, 4th Ia. Cav.
21. L. F. Kellogg, H, 86th Ill. Inf.		47. Henry Custer, 29th Ia. Inf.
22. Dr. E. L. Cook, H, 9th Ia. Cav.		48. George Razee, K, 2d N. H. Inf.
23. Thos. Yost, C, 53d Ill. Inf.		49. B. I. Kinsey, I, 18th Ia. Inf.
24. Geo. W. Ickes, D, 138th Pa. Inf.		50. Fred Goodling, E, 77th Ill. Inf.
25. J. O. Wickersham, A, 122d Ill. Inf.		51. Edward F. Fish, F, 3d Wis. Inf.