Company Unknown
2nd Sergeant
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Union service · Iowa
39th Iowa Infantry
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Company A
Private
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Company A
Private
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Company B
Sergeant
My gggrandfather was in this unit. He was held at Andersonville and survived. He was captured on Oct 5th 1864.
Company C
Private
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Company C
Private
Mustered in August 1862
Left service August 1863
Then enlisted Co K 14th Ohio Inf 1864 to July 1865
Company C
Private
Daniel W. JAMES, b. abt 1824, IN; d. 16 Dec 1862, bur. Missouri River near Cairo, IL. Married 24 Jul 1842, MO, to Martha BAILEY, b. 24 Jul 1824, TN; d. 14 Jan 1899, Chase, Rice, KS. National Archives Microfilm No.M541 roll 13.
Enlisted 24 Nov 1861, on behalf of his elder brother William G. James, who was drafted. William, ran a farm in Dallas Co. IA, and tended to his invalid wife. According to federal law, one could be released from service by providing a substitute. Daniel agreed to go in his brother''s place, in exchange for a promise that each of his children would be granted sections of land in Rice County, Kansas.
Daniel died 16 Dec 1862 from a ''camp illness'' while enroute by troop-boat from Cairo, IL to Columbus, KY. Burial in Missouri River near Cairo, IL.
Company D
Asst Surgeon
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Company D
Corporal
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Company E
Private
Benjamin became a POW on 31 Dec 1862 during the battle at Parker's Cross Roads in Tennessee. He was later released and mustered out 8 Jul 1865.
Company E
4th Corporal
My Great Grandfather.
Born 9/11/1840. Enlisted 8/15/1862 in Lake City, Iowa.
Captured 10/5/1864 at the Battle of Allatoona Pass (GA), imprisoned at Andersonville Prison--survived.
Died 10/7/1923, buried in Hardy Nebraska (Nuckolls County).
His brother Charles Beebe was also a member of Company E of 39th Iowa. Charles was killed at Allatoona Pass.
Company E
Private
James died in New Orleans, La. on Aug. 30, 1863 due to disease. He is older brother to Harry William Crandall-also on this site.
Company E
Private
Buried in the National Cemetery Matietta Georgia Section C Grave 831
Company E
Private
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Company E
1st Lieutenant
Name: Newton P Wright
Rank: 1 Lieutenant
Unit: IA 39 Inf E
Death Information: 05 Oct 1864 Allatoona GA
Enlisted 09 Aug 1862 age 29 res Greene Co.
Promoted 1 Lieut 31 Oct 1863 killed in action
Company F
Private
Alternate Name Spellings: Bickel and Beickel.
This is my Great Grandfather.
Company F
3rd Corporal
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Company F
Other
Jonathan Roby enlisted in St. Charles in August 1862 as a fifer, and was promoted to Principal Musician. He marched in the president's review of troops in Washington DC in May 1865 and mustered out later that year.
Company H
Sergeant
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Company I
Private
John Bowles was my gggrandfather. He and his brother, Joe were in the same unit. Neither fully recovered from their exposure to the elements and disease. Both fought long hard battles with the government to obtain the pensions they had rightfully earned.
Company I
Private
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Company I
1st Corporal
Enlisted as a 3rd Corporal on 15 August 1862 at the age of 22.
Mustered in Company I, 39th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 26 August 1862.
Promoted to 2nd Corporal on 1 May 1863.
Promoted to 1st Corporal (Estimated day) on 15 December 1864.
Mustered out on 5 June 1865 at Washington, DC.
Company K
Sergeant
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