UNION CIVIL WAR SOLDIER. A LIEUTENANT IN CO. F, 13TH REGT. IOWA VOL. INFANTRY. SERVED FROM 1861 TO 1865
When he was old enough he was apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, which trade he followed for several years. He then took up the carpenter's trade at Linglestown, Pa. In 1858 he heard the call to the West and his pioneering blood responded. Following Greeley's advice, he crossed the plains to Colorado and arrived at Denver when it was but a small village and the houses were crowned with chimneys made of sticks plastered together with mud. For some time he worked in the mines and gave up a good gold claim - sold it for a song - on account of his health. After this he played cowboy for a time, drove ox teams and went to a California lumber camp. He brought the first logs into Golden Gate City (then so-called), three miles above Golden City, Cal., on a Sunday morning in 1860. Coming East the following fall, he heard the first news of the Civil War in Iowa, and enlisted Oct. 15, 1861, in Co. F, 13th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Captains Archer and Noble L. Barner, commanding officer Col. (later Gen.) M. M. Crocker. He served three years and received an honorable discharge as acting captain with the rank of first lieutenant, having worked his way through the intermediate grades from private. Among other engagements he fought at Shiloh, Iuka and Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg, the battles at Jackson, Miss., Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Marietta, and went on Sherman's famous march to the sea. During a sick furlough he returned to Pennsylvania for a few weeks and visited all his relatives. He was mustered out on Dec. 20, 1864, near Savannah, Ga. After the war he went West again and after visiting nearly every state in the Union settled with relatives in Lisbon, Iowa, where he was married. Elias died at Allentown, Pa., whither he had removed from Iowa.
When he was old enough he was apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, which trade he followed for several years. He then took up the carpenter's trade at Linglestown, Pa. In 1858 he heard the call to the West and his pioneering blood responded. Following Greeley's advice, he crossed the plains to Colorado and arrived at Denver when it was but a small village and the houses were crowned with chimneys made of sticks plastered together with mud. For some time he worked in the mines and gave up a good gold claim - sold it for a song - on account of his health. After this he played cowboy for a time, drove ox teams and went to a California lumber camp. He brought the first logs into Golden Gate City (then so-called), three miles above Golden City, Cal., on a Sunday morning in 1860. Coming East the following fall, he heard the first news of the Civil War in Iowa, and enlisted Oct. 15, 1861, in Co. F, 13th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Captains Archer and Noble L. Barner, commanding officer Col. (later Gen.) M. M. Crocker. He served three years and received an honorable discharge as acting captain with the rank of first lieutenant, having worked his way through the intermediate grades from private. Among other engagements he fought at Shiloh, Iuka and Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg, the battles at Jackson, Miss., Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Marietta, and went on Sherman's famous march to the sea. During a sick furlough he returned to Pennsylvania for a few weeks and visited all his relatives. He was mustered out on Dec. 20, 1864, near Savannah, Ga. After the war he went West again and after visiting nearly every state in the Union settled with relatives in Lisbon, Iowa, where he was married. Elias died at Allentown, Pa., whither he had removed from Iowa.
UNION CIVIL WAR SOLDIER. A LIEUTENANT IN CO. F, 13TH REGT. IOWA VOL. INFANTRY. SERVED FROM 1861 TO 1865
When he was old enough he was apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, which trade he followed for several years. He then took up the carpenter's trade at Linglestown, Pa. In 1858 he heard the call to the West and his pioneering blood responded. Following Greeley's advice, he crossed the plains to Colorado and arrived at Denver when it was but a small village and the houses were crowned with chimneys made of sticks plastered together with mud. For some time he worked in the mines and gave up a good gold claim - sold it for a song - on account of his health. After this he played cowboy for a time, drove ox teams and went to a California lumber camp. He brought the first logs into Golden Gate City (then so-called), three miles above Golden City, Cal., on a Sunday morning in 1860. Coming East the following fall, he heard the first news of the Civil War in Iowa, and enlisted Oct. 15, 1861, in Co. F, 13th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Captains Archer and Noble L. Barner, commanding officer Col. (later Gen.) M. M. Crocker. He served three years and received an honorable discharge as acting captain with the rank of first lieutenant, having worked his way through the intermediate grades from private. Among other engagements he fought at Shiloh, Iuka and Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg, the battles at Jackson, Miss., Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Marietta, and went on Sherman's famous march to the sea. During a sick furlough he returned to Pennsylvania for a few weeks and visited all his relatives. He was mustered out on Dec. 20, 1864, near Savannah, Ga. After the war he went West again and after visiting nearly every state in the Union settled with relatives in Lisbon, Iowa, where he was married. Elias died at Allentown, Pa., whither he had removed from Iowa.
When he was old enough he was apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, which trade he followed for several years. He then took up the carpenter's trade at Linglestown, Pa. In 1858 he heard the call to the West and his pioneering blood responded. Following Greeley's advice, he crossed the plains to Colorado and arrived at Denver when it was but a small village and the houses were crowned with chimneys made of sticks plastered together with mud. For some time he worked in the mines and gave up a good gold claim - sold it for a song - on account of his health. After this he played cowboy for a time, drove ox teams and went to a California lumber camp. He brought the first logs into Golden Gate City (then so-called), three miles above Golden City, Cal., on a Sunday morning in 1860. Coming East the following fall, he heard the first news of the Civil War in Iowa, and enlisted Oct. 15, 1861, in Co. F, 13th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Captains Archer and Noble L. Barner, commanding officer Col. (later Gen.) M. M. Crocker. He served three years and received an honorable discharge as acting captain with the rank of first lieutenant, having worked his way through the intermediate grades from private. Among other engagements he fought at Shiloh, Iuka and Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg, the battles at Jackson, Miss., Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Marietta, and went on Sherman's famous march to the sea. During a sick furlough he returned to Pennsylvania for a few weeks and visited all his relatives. He was mustered out on Dec. 20, 1864, near Savannah, Ga. After the war he went West again and after visiting nearly every state in the Union settled with relatives in Lisbon, Iowa, where he was married. Elias died at Allentown, Pa., whither he had removed from Iowa.
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