Alonzo Ketchum was born in Licking County, Ohio and moved with his parents to Iowa when a small boy. Growing to manhood and the Civil War coming on in 1861, he quickly enlisted in B Company of the 6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. For four years and seventeen days during that bloody conflict he did his full duty as a soldier, marching with Sherman to the sea and unduring all the hardships of that campaign. This is commonly known as the Savannah Campaign. His first battle was at Shiloh, and he took an active part in 27 battles thereafter, some of which were the siege of Corinth, seige of Vicksburg, Black River and Jackson, Mississippi; Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee, Reseca, New Hope Church, Big Shanty, Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie River, Peach Tree Creek and Jonesboro, Georgia; Laurel Hill, West Virginia; Altoona and Atlanta, Georgia, and Chancellorsville, Virginia. He was a sergeant at the time of his discharge, and considering the number of killed and wounded during all of these battles, he came through without a wound.
Alonzo Ketchum was born in Licking County, Ohio and moved with his parents to Iowa when a small boy. Growing to manhood and the Civil War coming on in 1861, he quickly enlisted in B Company of the 6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. For four years and seventeen days during that bloody conflict he did his full duty as a soldier, marching with Sherman to the sea and unduring all the hardships of that campaign. This is commonly known as the Savannah Campaign. His first battle was at Shiloh, and he took an active part in 27 battles thereafter, some of which were the siege of Corinth, seige of Vicksburg, Black River and Jackson, Mississippi; Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee, Reseca, New Hope Church, Big Shanty, Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie River, Peach Tree Creek and Jonesboro, Georgia; Laurel Hill, West Virginia; Altoona and Atlanta, Georgia, and Chancellorsville, Virginia. He was a sergeant at the time of his discharge, and considering the number of killed and wounded during all of these battles, he came through without a wound.
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