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

JOSEPH YEAGER

JOSEPH YEAGER, in August, 1861 enlisted in the defense of the Union, and was assigned to Company G, Eleventh Iowa Infantry, and served three years. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, siege at Corinth, battle of Iuka, second battle of Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, and after the surrender of Vicksburg stationed there nine months on garrison duty. He was in the siege of Atlanta, and the battles preceding it, and on July 22, 1864, was wounded in the shoulder, by a fragment of shell. He died at Creston, of heart trouble in 1894.