Company K, Tenth Infantry; R. D. Casebolt, James T. Mount. S. D. Allen, Company E, Thirteenth Infantry; Sam W. Jenks, J. J. Aldrege, Thomas Shelling, .John T. Shumaker, H. Spangler, J. L. Martin, George Lowell and Z. F. Martin, Company G, Fourteenth Infantry; E. Elliott, Company B, Fifteenth Infantry; H. Hunt, Company I, Nineteenth Infantry, (died in prison at Tyler, Texas); David C. Vail. Company G, Fourteenth Infantry, (died at same place); Marcus D. Cong, F. Lowell and D. Womack, Company B, Thirty-ninth Infantry; Thomas Fatland, Company F, Forty-seventh Infantry; Wm. Keltner, Company G, Seventh Cavalry; A. G. Briley and S. Y. Shaw, Company I, Eighth Cavalry; Wm. C. Evans, Company H, Ninth Cavalry; Lieutenant Jason D. Ferguson, of the Twelfth Infantry, was killed at Shiloh.
THE DRAFT.
In casting up accounts in 1864, it was determined by the powers that be that Story County had not furnished her full quota of volunteers, and that a certain number must be forthcoming within a given time, or a draft would be necessary. This announcement caused great consternation among the home guards, and a regular epidemic appeared to have at once broke out all over the county among those who had heretofore been considered in good health. Doctors were in great demand, and they reaped a rich harvest. Nearly everybody turned agent and tried to prevail on his neighbor to enlist. Great was the running to and fro, and finally only twenty were wanting to make out the required number, and the draft was ordered, and that number of our patriotic citizens were drafted; some of the unlucky ones submitted to it gracefully, and some who had the funds hired substitutes. This ordeal having paused, quiet reigned, and people became more healthy. It was afterwards found that the draft was a mistake, as our county had already furnished more than its quota, but some sixty odd who had enlisted from this county had been wrongfully placed to the credit of adjoining counties, and had the proper credit been given the draft would not have been a part of our history. On the whole, Story County may be well proud of her military record. Not an important battle was fought, nor an important event occurred during the whole war in which some of her citizens did not take an active part. They were with the immortal Lyon at Wilson's Creek; with Gen. Grant at Ft. Henry, Donnelson, Shiloh, and siege of Corinth; with Rosecrans at Inks and Chicamauga; with Sherman in his first attack on Vicksburg, and in when it surrendered to Grant; with Hooker on Lookout Mountain, and with Thomas when he scaled the heights at Mission Ridge, and with Sherman from Chattanooga to the sea, and engaged in every battle in that memorable campaign, with brave Corse at Altoona Pass when Sherman signalled from Kenesaw to " Hold the Fort for I am Coming;" with Sherman at Columbia and Goldsboro, and with Grant at Appomattox. They experienced the horrors at Libby, Belle Isle and Andersonville, and joined in the triumphal march in the Grand Review at Washington. In all