WABAUNSEE COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL WAR RECORD Soon after the arrival of the Beecher colony they formed a militia company called the Prairie Guards, which took part in the Wakarusa war in the summer of 1856. Its captain was Wm. Mitchell. At the beginning of the Civil War, the population was only 1,050, of whom about 250 were voters, and being composed largely of New Englanders were anti-slavery in belief. Out of about 200 men subject to military duty, 112 men enlisted, a record to be proud of. About one-half of them were in the famous 11th Kansas, over thirty were in the 8th Infantry, some were in different companies of cavalry, six were in the 2nd Infantry, in whose service Captain E. D. C. Lines lost his life. After the campaign against General Price in 1864, the 11th Kansas was ordered to the frontier for a campaign against the Indians in Wyoming. In the Platte Bridge Massacre, July, 1865, Sebastian Nehring of Alma was slain and his body horribly mutilated. Henry Glimm, late of Volland, received arrow wounds from which he suffered all his life. Adolph Hankammer was also wounded. It was the sad mission of Stephen H. Fairfield, now of Alma, to assist in burying the dead. In this bloody battle twenty-five men were killed and their bodies dismembered, two were wounded. The Civil War record of the county is so well known and valued that it is needless to give further detail. The following enlisted in the Union Army and went into active service in the different regiments: ENLISTEE CAVALRY/INFANTRY COMPANY RANK Allen, J. B. 11th Cavalry K   Allen, J. M. 11th Cavalry K Captain Bancks, J. B. 8th Infantry E   Barnes, G. W. 8th Infantry E   Benedict, B. C. 5th Cavalry L   Bisby, C. E. 2nd Cavalry K   Blain, R. P. 11th Cavalry K   Blankenslip, Wm. 8th Infantry E   Brickford, S. 8th Infantry E   Brown, A. H. 11th Cavalry E   Burns, Charles 8th Infantry E   Cawkins, L. P. 8th Infantry E   Chapman, J. F. 11th Cavalry G   Cooney, Charles 8th Infantry E   Cotton, C. B. 11th Cavalry L   Cripps, Benj. 11th Cavalry E   Cummings, J. H. 8th Infantry E   Davis, Hamilton 5th Cavalry A   Dickson, James 2nd Cavalry B   Dieball, Albert 11th Cavalry K   Dotty, W. B. 2nd Cavalry F   Doty, John 11th Cavalry M   Dunmire, J. H. 8th Infantry E   Earl, R. J. 11th Cavalry K   Easter, S. B. 2nd Cavalry F   Eddy, G. W. 2nd Cavalry F   Ensign, C. D. 11th Cavalry K   Fairfield, S. H. 11th Cavalry K   Fenn, Isaac 11th Cavalry K   Foster, Columbus 2nd Cavalry K   Frizzle, Riley 11th Cavalry E   Greelish, John 8th Infantry E Captain Green, J. T. 11th Cavalry L   Grimm, Henry 8th Infantry E   Grimm, Henry 11th Cavalry K   Harris, A. W. 8th Infantry E   Hartwell, G. F. 2nd Cavalry F   Hill, G. H. 11th Cavalry E   Hodgson, George 11th Cavalry E   Hodgson, Ira 11th Cavalry E   Hoffman, Edward 11th Cavalry K   Hubbard, J. M. 11th Cavalry K Lieutenant Isbell, H. L. 2nd Infantry B   Isbell, I. C. 2nd Infantry B   Isbell, I. H. 11th Cavalry E   Isbell, W. F. 11th Cavalry E   Isler, Jacob 11th Cavalry K   Johnson, J. W. 8th Infantry E   Johnson, Z. 8th Infantry E   Kees, Albert 11th Cavalry E   Kelsey, A. H. 2nd Cavalry K   Kelsey, E. A. 11th Cavalry L   Kendall, J. P. 8th Infantry E   Kendall, R. M. 8th Infantry E   Keyes, Hiram 11th Cavalry K   Krauz, Moritz 11th Cavalry K   Lapham, W. H. 11th Cavalry E   Lines, E. C. D. 2nd Infantry B   Lutz, Henry 8th Infantry E   Mahan, Wm. 11th Cavalry E   McCormick, A. T. 11th Cavalry K   McCormick, J. M. 11th Cavalry K   McCoy, A. D. 11th Cavalry E   McNair, John 11th Cavalry K   Mossman, L. J. 11th Cavalry E   Nehring, sebast. 11th Cavalry K   Pinkerton, J. H. 11th Cavalry K   Pinkerton, P. C. 11th Cavalry K   Reed, A. M. 2nd Infantry B   Reese, Amos 8th Infantry E   Richardson, Wm. 8th Infantry E   Ross, Charles 2nd Cavalry F   Ross, George 11th Cavalry E   Sage, Samuel 11th Cavalry E   Saylor, John 8th Infantry E   Schwanke, D. 11th Cavalry K   Siegrist, G. 11th Cavalry K   Smith, A. J. 8th Infantry E   Smith, Ephraim 8th Infantry E   Smith, J. N. 11th Cavalry E   Smith, John 11th Cavalry L   Smith, Wm. 11th Cavalry L   Spear, Daniel 8th Infantry E   Speer, S. J. 8th Infantry E   Studibaker, W. C. 2nd Cavalry A   Thompson, H. C. 11th Cavalry I   Tomson, Haynie 8th Cavalry E   Town, C. G. 11th Cavalry E   VanAntwerp, J. 11th Cavalry L Lieutenant Waters, A. S. 2nd Cavalry F   Watson, Eli 2nd Cavalry F   Weaver, F. M. 8th Infantry E   Weisse, Joseph 6th Cavalry F   Welch, M. C. 2nd Infantry B   Wells, John 8th Infantry E   Wetzold, E. W. 6th Cavalry F   Widney, R. M. 11th Cavalry K   Wiley, Wm. 11th Cavalry K   Woods, Samuel 11th Cavalry E   Yimbocker, W. A. 11th Cavalry K   A comparison between the enlistments of 1861 and 1898 is interesting. In 1861, 112 men volunteered out of a population of 1,050. In the Spanish-American War, 1898, 29 men enlisted out of a population of 12,172. Undoubtedly many enlisted in the regular army at Fort Riley. The enlistment in the volunteer regiments was as follows: ENLISTEE CAVALRY/INFANTRY COMPANY RANK Behnke, Julius C. 21st Regiment G Corporal Brandt, Hugo 21st Regiment G 2nd Lieutenant (resigned) Davis, Charles G. 21st Regiment G   Davis, Frank 21st Regiment G   Davis, Frank 21st Regiment G   Dilley, Charles 21st Regiment G Sergeant Eisenhart, Albert 21st Regiment G   Kratzer, Gustavo 21st Regiment G   Lane, Ralph 21st Regiment G Corporal Mann, Edward 21st Regiment G   Miller, Albert F. 21st Regiment G   Motz, Elmer 21st Regiment G   Mungerson, Chris. 21st Regiment G   All these were from Alma. In the same company were Kelley Crozier, Artificer, and Henry Adam from Volland; Wm. R. Bradley, Alta Vista; Arthur Griffith, Bradford; Benton H. Jackson, of Keene; Royal S. Wood, Wabaunsee; Wm. E. Walker, Maple Hill; Bert G. Loveland, Keene. ENLISTEE COMPANY RESIDENCE RANK Dilley, Earl E. M Alma   Heubner, George I Alma Corporal Younker, Clarence E. M Alma   Younker, Clyde F. M Alma   Attached to Staff, Twenty-First Regiment - Winstead Deans, Alma; Bert G. Loveland, Keene. Twenty-Second Regiment, Co. I. - Richard S. Goodwin, Corporal, and Barndt Nelson, both of Maple Hill. Twenty-Third Regiment, Co. H. - Wm. Buck, Paxico, in service in Cuba from August, 1898, to March, 1899. Twenty-one of the men were in Co. G, Twenty-First Regiment, recruited at Osage City, May 13th, 1898. They were stationed most of the time at Camp George H. Thomas, near Lysle, Ga. Much sickness prevailed in this camp where Henry Allen, of Volland, gave up his life in Leiter Hospital, August 25th, 1898. The regiment was moved to Camp Hamitlon, Ky., August 26th, where it stayed until ordered to Ft. Leavenworth, September 27th. It was mustered out December 10th, 1898. The men of the Twenty-Second Regiment were most of the time at Camp Algr, Va., when they were ordered on a march of fifty miles to Thoroughfare, Va., arriving August 29th; ordered to Ft. Leavenworth, September 9th, mustered out November 3rd, 1898. It was a source of greatest disappointment to the men of these regiments that they were not given a chance in active field service. (Source: Business Directory and History of Wabaunsee County, published by the Kansas Directory Company of Topeka, Kansas, 1907, pages 15-18, transcribed by Peggy Thompson) Back to index Copyright © 2010 to Kansas Genealogy Trails' Wabaunsee County host & all Contributors   All rights reserved