Civil War Veteran
Co I 7th Iowa Cavalry
Sioux City Independant Cavalry
Muck, Joseph. Age 45.
Residence Springfield, Minn.
Nativity Kentucky.
Enlisted Sept. 24,1861.
Mustered Nov. 18, 1861.
Mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, Sioux City, Iowa,
expiration of term of service.
Prior to the commencement of the great War of the Rebellion, troops belonging to the Regular Army of the United States had been located at the various military posts on the northern and western frontiers, for the purpose of restraining the Indians from committing
depredations upon the pioneer settlers whose homes were located upon those frontiers.
However at outset of the war the greater part of those troops were engaged with the armies in the South. The Indian tribes were quick to take advantage of the situation, and a series of
depredations and massacres of whole families ensued.
The Seventh Iowa Cavalry was organized under special authority of the War Department, for the purpose of assisting in the defense of the western and northern frontier settlements against the hostile Indians tribes.
The Sioux City Cavalry Company, having been raised nearest the
scene of the Indian troubles, was the first to take the field(1861). It was composed of men inured to the hardships of frontier life, and generally acquainted with the Indian methods of warfare. The officers and men of this company rendered long, arduous and heroic
service on the northern border and in the Indian Territory, first as an independent company, and subsequently as a part of the Seventh Iowa Cavalry Co I, to which regiment it was transferred.
The 7th Cavalry organized in 1863 assigned companies to duty at various points in Nebraska and Dakota for garrison duty, guarding lines of telegraph and travel, escorting trains and protecting emigrants, having frequent combats with Indians in the Departments of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas and Colorado.
Co I 7th Iowa Cavalry
Sioux City Independant Cavalry
Muck, Joseph. Age 45.
Residence Springfield, Minn.
Nativity Kentucky.
Enlisted Sept. 24,1861.
Mustered Nov. 18, 1861.
Mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, Sioux City, Iowa,
expiration of term of service.
Prior to the commencement of the great War of the Rebellion, troops belonging to the Regular Army of the United States had been located at the various military posts on the northern and western frontiers, for the purpose of restraining the Indians from committing
depredations upon the pioneer settlers whose homes were located upon those frontiers.
However at outset of the war the greater part of those troops were engaged with the armies in the South. The Indian tribes were quick to take advantage of the situation, and a series of
depredations and massacres of whole families ensued.
The Seventh Iowa Cavalry was organized under special authority of the War Department, for the purpose of assisting in the defense of the western and northern frontier settlements against the hostile Indians tribes.
The Sioux City Cavalry Company, having been raised nearest the
scene of the Indian troubles, was the first to take the field(1861). It was composed of men inured to the hardships of frontier life, and generally acquainted with the Indian methods of warfare. The officers and men of this company rendered long, arduous and heroic
service on the northern border and in the Indian Territory, first as an independent company, and subsequently as a part of the Seventh Iowa Cavalry Co I, to which regiment it was transferred.
The 7th Cavalry organized in 1863 assigned companies to duty at various points in Nebraska and Dakota for garrison duty, guarding lines of telegraph and travel, escorting trains and protecting emigrants, having frequent combats with Indians in the Departments of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas and Colorado.
Civil War Veteran
Co I 7th Iowa Cavalry
Sioux City Independant Cavalry
Muck, Joseph. Age 45.
Residence Springfield, Minn.
Nativity Kentucky.
Enlisted Sept. 24,1861.
Mustered Nov. 18, 1861.
Mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, Sioux City, Iowa,
expiration of term of service.
Prior to the commencement of the great War of the Rebellion, troops belonging to the Regular Army of the United States had been located at the various military posts on the northern and western frontiers, for the purpose of restraining the Indians from committing
depredations upon the pioneer settlers whose homes were located upon those frontiers.
However at outset of the war the greater part of those troops were engaged with the armies in the South. The Indian tribes were quick to take advantage of the situation, and a series of
depredations and massacres of whole families ensued.
The Seventh Iowa Cavalry was organized under special authority of the War Department, for the purpose of assisting in the defense of the western and northern frontier settlements against the hostile Indians tribes.
The Sioux City Cavalry Company, having been raised nearest the
scene of the Indian troubles, was the first to take the field(1861). It was composed of men inured to the hardships of frontier life, and generally acquainted with the Indian methods of warfare. The officers and men of this company rendered long, arduous and heroic
service on the northern border and in the Indian Territory, first as an independent company, and subsequently as a part of the Seventh Iowa Cavalry Co I, to which regiment it was transferred.
The 7th Cavalry organized in 1863 assigned companies to duty at various points in Nebraska and Dakota for garrison duty, guarding lines of telegraph and travel, escorting trains and protecting emigrants, having frequent combats with Indians in the Departments of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas and Colorado.
Co I 7th Iowa Cavalry
Sioux City Independant Cavalry
Muck, Joseph. Age 45.
Residence Springfield, Minn.
Nativity Kentucky.
Enlisted Sept. 24,1861.
Mustered Nov. 18, 1861.
Mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, Sioux City, Iowa,
expiration of term of service.
Prior to the commencement of the great War of the Rebellion, troops belonging to the Regular Army of the United States had been located at the various military posts on the northern and western frontiers, for the purpose of restraining the Indians from committing
depredations upon the pioneer settlers whose homes were located upon those frontiers.
However at outset of the war the greater part of those troops were engaged with the armies in the South. The Indian tribes were quick to take advantage of the situation, and a series of
depredations and massacres of whole families ensued.
The Seventh Iowa Cavalry was organized under special authority of the War Department, for the purpose of assisting in the defense of the western and northern frontier settlements against the hostile Indians tribes.
The Sioux City Cavalry Company, having been raised nearest the
scene of the Indian troubles, was the first to take the field(1861). It was composed of men inured to the hardships of frontier life, and generally acquainted with the Indian methods of warfare. The officers and men of this company rendered long, arduous and heroic
service on the northern border and in the Indian Territory, first as an independent company, and subsequently as a part of the Seventh Iowa Cavalry Co I, to which regiment it was transferred.
The 7th Cavalry organized in 1863 assigned companies to duty at various points in Nebraska and Dakota for garrison duty, guarding lines of telegraph and travel, escorting trains and protecting emigrants, having frequent combats with Indians in the Departments of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas and Colorado.
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7 IA Cavalry Co. I
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