A Biography of Union county Soldiers. Veterans' Photographic Souvenir. (G.A.R)

JAMES HENDRICK

James Hendrick came to Iowa with his parents in the fall of 1855. They located in Clarke county, and there he grew to manhood and received his education in the common schools. He served over two years in the war of the Rebellion, being a member of Company D, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, and participated in a number of battles, including Nashville, Franklin, Dallas, Marietta, and was in all the engagements with Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta. He came to Union county, Iowa, in the fall of 1865, and in 1868 settled on a farm where he has since followed farming and stock-raising.