Military Matters &e.
| (P.32) A rifle company was organized in the township of Howell in 1844. The commissioned officers of the company were William Lewis, Captain; Ira Brayton, 1st Lieutenant, and Emmet Smith, 2d Lieutenant. The first military parade of this company was at the residence of John W. Smith, on section 28. A few years after the company was organized, military duty was not required by the State Government, consequently the company was disbanded. In the year 1861, the following persons of the township and village enlisted and mustered into the United States service in the war of the Rebellion: (P.33) |
| OFFICERS | |||
| (P.33-34) | Rank | Rank | |
| Andrew J. Bishop | Promoted to a Captaincy | Everett Sergent | 2d Lieut. |
| Solomon S. Lyon | Captain | James Mulloy | 2d Lieut. |
| William Brown | Captain | Jabesh A. Pond | Sergt.-- killed. |
| Hudson B. Blackman | 1st Lieut. and Quarter master | Bernard Ryder | Sergt., died of disease. |
| Andrew D. Waddell | 1st Lieut. | Jonathan Sharp | Sergt., taken prisoner and died. |
| Harris A. Hickok | Adjutant | William Pullen | wounded. |
| Frederick Angel | 2d Lieut. | ||
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SERGEANTS RETURNED |
|
| Jared L. Cook | Franklin Goodrich |
| Stephen Fishbeck | Charles Lake |
| James Fitzgerald | Edgar Noble |
| Luther Frink | George Stafford |
|
CORPORALS KILLED, WOUNDED OR DIED OF DISEASE |
|
| Jerome Buckland |
Joseph Pruden |
| Edwin Hart |
Gardner S. Smith |
|
John Lake |
|
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PRIVATES KILLED OR DIED OF WOUNDS |
|
| Chester Albright | George Lake |
| Amizee Axtell | Thomas G. Marr |
| Jerome Barrett |
Jerome Phillips |
| Samuel Button | Henry Preston |
| James Canfield | Merritt Pullen |
| Henry Carl | Eli Rambo |
| Philo Curtis | Abraham Sintzer |
| James Dewitt | Charles Smith |
| Simon Dolph | Edwin H. Smith |
| Sylvenus Dolph | Peter Wall |
| Isaac Felter | Theodore Washburn |
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DIED OF DISEASE |
|
| Charles Brockway | John Hildebrant |
| Andrew J. Carl | Reuben McFall |
| Lyman Carl | Daniel Morse |
| Simon Child | George Newton |
| John Cummings | George Pennell |
| William Curtis | Reuben C. Smith |
| John Dorn | W illiam L. Whited |
| Sherwood Hart | Jacob Zeely |
| Philander Helms | |
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PRIVATES WOUNDED IN BATTLE |
|
| George Axtell | James Monroe |
| Alvah G. Blood | Norton Monroe |
| Noah Boothley | David Robertson |
| Sidney Carpenter | Vernon C. Smith |
| William Cooper | John Tompkins |
| William Cooper, Jr. | Frederick Zeits |
| Charles Culver | |
| PRIVATES WHO RETURNED SAFE | |
| Franklin B. Abbott | Franklin Jordan |
| Andrew J. Allen | Henry Larowe |
| V ertell Baker | James Larowe |
| Rinaldo Balcom | Peter May |
| William Bennett | Asa McFall |
| William E. Bennett | Andrew McKeene |
| George Blackman | Edwin McKinley |
| Henry Boothby | J. B. McLean |
| John Boothby | Henry Musson |
| George Brenner | John Park |
| Elias E. Brockway | Silas Peterson |
| George F. Brockway | Joseph Preston |
| William Brooks | George Reed |
| Azel Carpenter | James Reed |
| Cyrus Carpenter | Amos Smith |
| Erwin Child | Julius D. Smith |
| Marcus Child | Henry Stansell |
| William Clayton | Allen Stearnes |
| John Daniels | William Tate |
| Orson Deming | Lewis Tupper |
| Giles Donnelly | William Vandercook |
| Thomas Donnelly | Isaac Van Loon |
| Daniel Ellenwood | Edwin Ware |
| John Ferguson | Reuben Warren |
| Frederick Galloway | Andrew Well |
| Thomas Gilchrist | Martin Well |
| Howard Glover | Orrin G. Wells |
| Chester F. Goodrich | Frank Whipple |
| Sidney Harington | Andrew J. Whitaker |
| Edmund Hart | Ezra Whitaker |
| Marion Hart | George White |
| Cornelius Helms | James E. White |
| Henry Helms | Asa Wilson |
| Jerome Helms | Peter Woll, Jr. |
| Leonard Helms | David Wright |
| Charles Hildebrant | George Wright |
| Theodore Huntly | Henry Wright |
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It may here be worthy of remark that Bernard B. Smith, a resident of the village, and a printer by trade, was engaged in sixty-two battles during the civil war. Henry Carl and Andrew J. Carl were sons of David Carl, deceased. Gardner S. Smith, Reuben C. Smith and Edwin H. Smith were sons of the author of this volume. |
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