Boone county, although having furnished men in excess of her quota, responded promptly, and was represented in the Forty-fourth. Although they were engaged in no battles they did effective service in closing up the war. The Forty-fourth was mustered in June, 1864, and mustered out at Davenport, September 15, 1864.

Boone county was represented in company H, and was enlisted May 10th to 13th, 1864.

MISCELLANEOUS INFANTRY REGIMENTS.

Ricket, Jonathan N., company E; Browhard, Martin, enlisted October

Boone county responded nobly to the Nation's call for help in her hour of trouble; she was represented in eighteen different regimental organizations, and furnished 725 men, or 184 more than her quota. The list of commissioned officers is as follows:

STAFF AND FIELD OFFICERS.

Samuel B. McCall, brevet major, U. S. V., July 25, 1865, from company E, third infantry.

Lucius Boudinot, hospital steward, fifteenth infantry.

Allen T. Birchard, quartermaster-sergeant, thirty-second infantry.

Lucius Boudinot, hospital steward, forty-fourth infantry.

CAPTAINS.

Strunk, D., fifth infantry, U. S. A.

D.

McCall, Samuel B., company E, third infantry.

Perry, Wm. B., company D, tenth infantry.

Eberhart, A. C., company D, tenth infantry.

Williams, Crandall W., company D, sixteenth infantry.

DeTarr, Theo., company D, thirty-
second infantry.

Shannon, Robert, company D, thir-
ty-second infantry.
Adams, John J., company H, forty-
fourth infantry.

FIRST LIEUTENANTS.

Wheeler, William J., company D, tenth infantry.

Moffatt, Sephen G., company D, tenth infantry.

Eberhart, A. C., company D, tenth infantry.

Stover, Isaac, company D, tenth in-
fantry.

Alexander, Joseph S., company K,
sixteenth infantry.
Templin, William, company D, thir-
ty-second infantry.
Shannon, Robt. J., company D, thir-
ty-second infantry.

Harvey, Joseph M., company D,
thirty-second infantry.
Adams, John J., company H, forty-
fourth infantry.

SECOND LIEUTENANTS.

Templin, William, company D, tenth infantry.

Stine, Isaac, company D, tenth infantry.

Holcomb, George H., company D, sixteenth infantry.

Stringer, A. N., company K, sixteenth infantry.

Huxford, George, company K, sixteenth infantry.

Shannon, Robert J., company D, thirty-second infantry.

Boggs, William F., company H, forty-fourth infantry.

SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA.

The following beautiful poem, which has won for its author a national reputation, and has been sung in the theaters of Europe, was written in a Southern prison, by Adjutant S. H. M. Byers, at present (1880) U. S. Consul, at Zurich, Switzerland. In his little book, "What I saw in Dixie," on pages 73-4, he copies from his diary, December 25, 1865, as follows: "This is my second Christmas in prison.

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Lieutenant Tower, of Ottumwa, Iowa, who had lost a leg in the army, and who was afterward captured, is now to be exchanged and sent home. He wears a hollow, artificial limb in place of the one lost; this we packed full of letters, one of which contained Sherman's March to the Sea. rebels little suspected our novel way of communicating with our friends. The Lieutenant went safely through, and the letters were all safely de livered":

Our camp fires shone bright on the mountains
That frowned on the river below,

While we stood by our guns in the morning
And eagerly watched for the foe-

When a rider came out from the darkness

That hung over mountain and sea,

And shouted "Boys up and be ready,
For Sherman will march to the sea.

Then cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman
Went up from each valley and glen,
And the bugles re-echoed the music
That came from the lips of the men.
For we knew that the stars in our banner

More bright in their splendor would be,

And that blessings from Northland would greet us
When Sherman marched down to the sea.

Then forward, boys, forward to battle,
We marched on our wearisome way,
And we stormed the wild hills of Resaca,
--God bless those who fell on that day-

Then Kenesaw, dark in its glory,

Frowned down on the flag of the free,
But the East and the West bore our standards,
And Sherman marched on to the sea.

Still onward we pressed, till our banners
Swept out from Atlanta's grim walls,
And the blood of the patriot dampened
The soil where the traitor flag falls;
But we paused not to weep for the fallen,
Who slept by each river and tree;
Yet we twined them a wreath of the laurel,
As Sherman marched down to the sea.

O, proud was our army that morning
That stood where the pine darkly towers,
When Sherman said, "Boys, you are weary,
This day fair Savannah is ours.

Then sang we a song for our chieftain
That echoed o'er river and lea,

And the stars in our banner shone brighter,
When Sherman marched down to the sea.

CHAPTER XII.

TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.

THE first subdivision of the county into precincts was made shortly after the first election in 1849. As has already been seen, the county was at that time divided into three precincts or civil townships by the board of supervisors. These townships were strips of about equal width, extending east and west across the entire length of the county. The south precinct or township was called Pleasant, the north one was called Boone River and the one in the middle was called Boone. While this arrangement was an economical one, and, during the time that the county was sparsely settled except along the Des Moines river, was sufficiently convenient for election purposes, the time soon came when it became necessary to subdivide the townships already existing, and it was likewise wisely concluded to have none of these civil townships extend across the river. In changing the territory comprising these original townships, there was a disposition manifested on the part of the authorities whose duty it was to order the changes, also to adopt a new class of naines. The name Boone, although a good one, was thought to be altogether too general. There was Boone county, Boonesboro, Boone township and Boone River township, and it was suggested, and that, too, not without reason, that this name be released of part of its application. The official, whose duty it was to order the organization of new townships, was county judge. S. B. McCall was filling this office in 1852, when these changes occurred, and to him, probably more than to any other person, is a large number of the townships indebted for their names. Mr. McCall was an ardent Democrat, and was likewise enthusiastically in sympathy with that Democratic measure, the Mexican War. It is from this cause that a large number of the townships of Boone county are named after the generals of the Mexican War and Democratic politicians.

March 1852, the old boundaries of Boone township were changed by the following order: