NINTH CAVALRY. The Ninth cavalry regiment was organized in the fall of 1863, and mustered in at Davenport, November 30, and was represented by nearly every county in the State. It was moved to Benton Barracks, where it remained until April 14, when it started for Little Rock. Its field of service was in Arkansas, and its most active service was when Steele was in a stage of siege at Little Rock. It was engaged in frequent short, sharp skirmishes. It took no part in the great battles of the war, still it performed two years' laborious and gallant service. It marched over two thousand miles, moved by steamboat and rail seventeen hundred miles, and in scouting, over eight thousand miles. It lost one hundred and sixty-four men by sickness, and fifteen by wounds. It was mustered out at Little Rock in detachments in February and March, 1866. Marion county was represented in company I. Prentice, Thomas J., company E; enlisted February 27, 1862. Preston, George R., company E; enlisted March 20, 1862. Houseman, William, company E; enlisted February 26, 1862. Bremen, Benjamin F., company E; enlisted January 18, 1864. Cooper, Geo. H., company E; enlisted February 4, 1864. Moss, James, company E; enlisted January 17, 1864. Phifer, George, company E; enlisted January 17, 1864. Dixon, Benjamin, company E; enlisted January 10, 1864. Cowman, Thomas T., company E; enlisted March 12, 1862. Clark, Willis P., company E; enlisted March 12, 1862. Darnell, William, company E; enlisted March 12, 1862. Ebright, William, company E; enlisted March 12, 1862. Harris, John, company E; enlisted February 26, 1862. SIXTEENTH. Samuel Wilkins, fourth corporal, company E; December 19, 1861; discharged May 29, 1862. Vernon, Wilson S., company E; February 10, 1862; veteranized February 28, 1864. Wicklie, Garrett C., company E; wounded at Atlanta; died of wounds July 14, 1862. Babcock, Simeon C; February 17, 1862; transferred to invalid corps September 15, 1863. Roth, William J., company E; November 28, 1864. Todd, Henry A., November 28, 1864. TWENTY-SECOND. Donaldson, Thomas J., company E; Marion county responded nobly to the call of her country. She furnished 1,369 men for the war, or 559 in excess of her quota. The record made by her citizen soldiers was such as to merit the highest honor. She was represented in thirty-one different regiments. FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS. William M. Stone, major Third infantry; promoted to colonel of Twentysecond; to Governor October 13, 1863; re-elected October 10, 1865. Benjamin F. Keables, surgeon Third infantry. John W. Schooley, assistant surgeon Third infantry. George Darrow, drum-major Third infantry. John C. Ferguson, lieutenant-colonel Eighth infantry. J. R. Duncan, assistant surgeon Eleventh infantry. William T. Cunningham, major Fifteenth infantry. Rufus H. Eldridge, quartermaster-sergeant Fifteenth infantoy. Elisha Elliott, commissary-sergeant Fifteenth infantry. Cornelius Englefield, hospital steward Fifteenth infantry. William M. Stone, colonel Twenty-second infantry. Joseph B. Atherton, major Twenty-second infantry. William M. Scott, assistant surgeon Thirty-third infantry. CAPTAINS. Stone, William M., company B, Third infantry. Long, Daniel P., company B, Third infantry. Hobbs, Albert, company B, Third infantry. Gregg, Tillman P., company B, Pennywitt, William C., company B, Bye, Edward P., company G, Fifteenth infantry. Horner, William, company G, Seventeenth infantry. Hudson, William D., company G, Whipple, L. W.,company G, Thirtythird infantry. Totten, Paris T., company I, Thirty third infantry. Carrothers, Levi, company I, Thirty-third infantry. Bennett, M. V. B., company A, Fortieth infantry. Blain, William, company A, Fortieth infantry. Anderson, Thomas J., company A, Fortieth infantry. Ridlen, Ebenezer W., company F, Fortieth infantry. Jenkins, Thomas, company G, Fortieth infantry. Jordan, David C., company G, Fortieth infantry. Johnson, Peter M., company H, Fortieth infantry. Richards, Nathan, company H, Fortieth infantry. Amos, Caleb J., company H, Fortieth infantry. Arnold, Stephen S., company K, Miller, Jacob F., company K, Third cavalry. Cherrie, Martin, company K, Third cavalry. Honnold, Newton C., company K, Third cavalry. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Long, Daniel P., company B, Third Howell, S. Sylvester, company B, Sumner, Williain H., company B, Reed, J., Co. E, Eighth infantry. Hanks, Romulus, L., company G, Fifteenth infantry. Bye, Edward P., company G, Filteenth infantry. Welch, Isaiah M., company G, Fif- Fifteenth infantry. Cory, Lewis P., company G, Thirtythird infantry. Henderson, John, company I, Thir ty-third infantry. Reichard, John, company I, Thirtythird infantry. Clark, Joseph M., company I, Thirty-third infantry. Carrothers, Levi, company I, Thirty-third infantry. Jones, Oscar L., company I, Thirtythird infantry. Anderson, Thomas J., company A, Fortieth infantry. Blain, William, company A, Fortieth infantry. |