This Day in Goodlove History, October 19

This Day in Goodlove History, October 19

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.

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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.



The William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove is available at the Farmer's Daughter's Market , (319) 294-7069, 495 Miller Rd, Hiawatha, IA , http://www.fdmarket.com/





Birthdays on this date; Douglas J. Walz, Linda L. Lewis, Michelle A. Lage, Isaac S. Godlove

Weddings on this date: Mary Elizabeth and John T. Vance, Ruth Comer and Ned Grindle, June A. Squires and John M. Brewer



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Subject: Russian Yiddish



In a message dated 10/14/2010 11:17:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,



Hi Jeff



I noticed you asked about someone translating the Gottlober book. When I last spoke with Rochelle about the translation she said she had sent you an email and hadnt heard back. I havent followed up and perhaps should remove myself from the discussion, but was wondering if you had gotten back to her.





Susan





Susan, thanks for getting back to me. I did get back to Rochelle, (at least I thought I did) but I had not heard back. I will reach out again and see if maybe my email did not get through especially when I send them sometimes on my phone. I would love to have Rochelle work on the translation if she would like to. I was just trying to figure out some sort of compensation for all the work she was doing. Thanks for getting back to me.



Jeff Goodlove





This Day…



October 19, 1770. Dined at Col. Croghans abt. 4 Miles from Pittsburg & returnd.



October 19th, 1770: This day’s entry in the second diary notes that GW “Recd. A Message from Col. Croghan that the White Mingo & other Chiefs of the 6 Nations had something to say to me, & desiring that I woud be at his House abt. 1 1. (Where they were to meet) I went up and receivd a Speech with a String of wampum from the White Mingo to the following effect.

“That as I was a Person who some of them remember to have seen when I was sent on an Embassy to the French, and most of them had heard of: they were come to bid me welcome to the Country, and to desire that the People of Virginia woud consider them as friends & Brothers linked together in one chain—that I wd. Inform the Governor, that it was their wish to live in peace and harmy, with the white People, & that tho their had been some unhappy differences between them and the People upon our Froniers, it was all made up, and they hopd forgotten; and concluded with saying, that, their Brothers of Virginia did not come among them and Trade as the Inhabitants of the other Provences did, from whence they were aifraid that we did not look upon them with so friendly an Eye as they coud wish.

“To this I answerd (after thanking them for their friendly welcome) that all the Injuries & Affronts that had passd on either side was not totally forgotten, and that I was sure nothing was more wishd and desird by the People of Virginia than to live in the strictest friendship with them. That the Virginians were a People not so much engagd in Trade as the Pensylvanians, &ca., wch. was the Reason of their not being so frequently among them; but that it was possible they might for the time to come have stricter connections with them, and that I woud acquaint the Govr. with their desires.”

The White Mingo (Conengayote) was a Six Nations chief of some importance in this area.

The second diary entry for this day also notes that “After dining at Cob. Croghan we returnd to Pittsburg—Colo. Croghan with us, who intended to accompany us part of the Way down the River, having engaged an Indian calld the Pheasant & one Joseph Nicholson an Interpreter to attend us the whole Voyage. Also a young Indn. Warrior.” The Pheasant had attended the Indian congress at Fort Stanwix in 1768 with a delegation of i6 warriors. He may have been an Oneida. GW paid the Pheasant and the young warrior £io 13s. for their services on the trip to the Ohio [1]







October 19, 1772



In consequence of orders from General Gage, the garrison are preparing to depart. They have begun to destroy the fortress. This is matter of surprise & grief to the people around, who have requested that the fortress may stand, as a place of security to them, in case in Indian invasion. I asked one of the officers, the reason of their destroying a Fort, so necessary to the safety of the frontiers? He replied, “The Americans will not submit to the british Parliament, and they may now defend themselves.”



Last Week, Mr. Frisbie & Mr. Plummer & myself rode to Col. Croghern’s to dine. Afternoon called on Major Ward.Mentioned to the Col. The affair of the war belt. He has, I find, the ill will of the people in this quarter, principally on account of his claims to great tracts of land, which others claim.



Reports have arrived of several whites being murdered by the Indians, down the Ohio.[2]



October 19, 1782

Greensburg, Penna., Valentine Crawford.[3]

Col. John Stephenson appearing in Court and renouncing the administration of the estate of Valentine Crawford deceased. On the motion of Mr. Thomas Scott and Captain John Minter appeared in Court and being willing to take upon himself the trouble of administration of the said estate Ordered by the court that Register of Probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration to the said John Minter in usual form.

7/6 J.P. C. Brison 4/6 to prepaid Nath Hoak



Greensgurg, Penna., Valentine Crawford, deceased.

Memoram sum— that on the 19th day of October, in the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and eighty two, letters of Administration of all and singular, the goods and Chattels Rights and Credits which were of Valentine Crawford’s late of Westmore— land County Yeoman, deceased, were granted to John Minter, the said Administrator is to make true and perfect inventory of the personal estate of the said deceased and file the same in the register office at or before the nineteenth day offVovember next.. Ensue ing the State thereof. [4]



Date Missing

Valentine Crawford, deceased.

John Minter administrator of all and singular the goods and Shcattles, Rights and Credits which were of Valentine Crawford late of the County aforesaid Deceased: by his Petition setteth forth that there hath Come to his hands of the Estate of the said Deceased, the Sum of Two hundred and Thirty Pounds eighteen shilling and eight pence. As appears bgy the Inventory thereof Exibited into the Registors office. That he hath paid of the debts of the said Estate to the amount of Nine hundred and three Pounds six shillings and six pence, half-penny. By which it appears that he hath paid the Sum of six Hundred and Seventy two Pounds. Seven shilling and ten pence out of his own Estate. That there is a sum of One Thousand three Hundred and Twenty pounds, for shillings and eight pence half-penny yet due and owing by the said Estate to Sundry persons as p. account. Exibited to this court. Also stating that there is the Sum of Nine Hundred and Ninety seven pounds ten shilling and Nine pence farthing. Yet due to the Estate which hath not Come to his hand or passion. From which it appears that there is a balance of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety two Pounds twelve shillings and six pence. Yet due by the said Estate. Without any personal Estate to satisfy the same unless the aforesaid sum of Nine Hundred and Niney Seven Pounds ten shillings and Nine pence. If ever it can be collected. And the Administrator being sworn to the truth of his Petition in Open Court. It is Ordered by the Court, that following Tract of Land. (being part of the Real Estate of the said Deceased). Lying in Tyron Township adjoining Lands of John Stephenson, Benjamin Wells, and Isaac Mason. Containing Three hundred acres. Be sold on Thursday sixth Day of July next. At the place where the Courts will be held. And make report to the next Court. End Quote.[5]





October 19, 1811: By October 19, rations were cut and remained so until October 28 when fresh supplies arrived via the Wabash River from Vincennes. With the army resupplied, Harrison resumed his advance to Prophetstown on October 29.[6]



Wed. October 19[7], [8], 1864

Battle of cedar creek commenced at 5 am[9]

By the rebs drove in our left 3 miles

Battle lasted until dark drove the rebs

Passed strawsburg in haste[10]



October 19, 1864. The 18th Cavalry was part of the Confederate force that guarded the Shenandoah Valley in 1863 and 1864. It participated in the Valley Campaign of 1864, including the Battle of New Market (May 15), the Second Battle of Kernstown (July 24), the Third Battle of Winchester (September 19), the Battle of Cedar Creek (October 19) and remained in the Valley, usually the Page Valley in the east of the larger Shenandoah Valley, through the rest of the year, participating in several less-consequential engagements, and losing about forty percent of its members, killed, wounded, captured. [11]



Members of the 18th Virginia Cavalry include…



Alfred A. Brill s/o Mary Ann Godlove and Henry Brill

Captain, Co. D, 114th Virginia militia;

Private, Co. F, 33rd Regt Va. Infantry

Private, Co. K, 18 Virginia Cavalry



Lemuel E. Brill s/o Mary Ann Godlove and Henry Brill

3rd Sgt., Co D, 114th Regt. Va. Militia

Privateàto 3rd Corporal Co F 33rd Regt, Va. Infantry ;

Private, Co. D., 18th Regt. Va. 18th Regt, Va. Cavalry;



Hampton Jefferson Brill s/o Mary Ann Godlove and Henry Brill

Private, Co D, 114th Regt. Va. Militia

Private, Co F, 33rd Va. Infantry

Private, Co. D, 18th Virginia Cavalry



Abraham Didawick s/o Elizabeth Godlove and Henry Didawick

private, Co. I, 18th Virginia Cavalry



Benjamin F. Didawick s/o Elizabeth Godlove and Henry Didawick

Private, Co. I, 18th Virginia Cavalry



John H. Didawick s/o Elizabeth Godlove and Henry Didawick

no official record; Roger U. Delauter, 18th Virginia Cavalry, Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1986 says John is listed on a postwar roster



David Godlove s/o Francis Godlove

2nd corporal, Co. A, 14th Regt Va. Militia

private, Co. D, 1st Regt Va. Partisan Rangers

private, Co. I, 18th Va Cavalry



Isaac Godlove s/o Francis Godlove

private, Co. A, 14th Regt Va. Militia,

private, Co. I, 18th Va Cavalry



Joseph Godlove s/o Francis Godlove

1st lieutenant, Co. A, 14th Regt Va. Militia

2nd sergeant, Co. D, 1st Regt Va. Partisan Rangers

2nd sergeant, Co I., 18th Virginia Cavalry[12]



• Luise Gottlieb, nee Gottlieb born October 19, 1886 in Leipzig. resided, Leipzig

• Deportation: from Leipzig. June 18, 1943, Theresienstadt. May 16, 1944, Auschwitz.[13]

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October 1908: James F. Goodlove was indicted for shooting in the back and killing on August 6 Percy Stuckey, alias Frank McCormick; convicted of manslaughter by Wyandot County Court of Common Pleas and sentenced to 15 years at hard labor in Ohio penitentiary. Conviction upheld by Circuit Court, but reversed by Ohio Supreme Court on June 28, 1910 on the basis of an error in the indictment. Court said Goodlove was indicted for the murder of “Percy Stuckey, alias Frank McCormick,” but prosecution had not demonstrated that Stuckey existed; prosecution’s evidence showed he had killed McCormick, not Stuckey. Goodlove was released.[14]



October 1918

The flu kills 195,000 Americans. It was the deadliest month in our nations history.[15]



October 1922: Mussolini's march on Rome in October 1922; [16]



• October 1923: As the catastrophic economic consequences of passive resistance become more visible, separatism and particularism intensify, especially in Bavaria. Radical unrest also grows. The rearming rightist bands start planning to overthrow the Republic, should it give up resistance to France. The Communists intensify their own preparations for a putsch. They hope to strike a decisive blow in October 1923 ("Red October"), six years after the successful Russian Revolution.

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• October 1925: Bavarian right-wing activism, virulent, well-armed, and politically radical, is the first to challenge the Republic. In order to check the most militant rightists in Bavaria (including the Nazis), the Bavarian government forms an emergency government, practically a dictatorship, under the more moderate rightist Gustav von Kahr. Bavaria also moves toward greater autonomy from Berlin. [17]

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• Treaty of Locarno, signed by Luther and Stresemann for Germany, guarantees that the German western border will not be changed except by peaceful means (October 1925). This forms part of an intelligent policy by Stresemann, who sets out to create two standards for Germany's treaties: if Germany recognizes some selective parts of Versailles, the original treaty (forced upon the Germans) becomes increasingly hollow. What Stresemann does amounts to a covert renegotiation of the peace terms in the spirit of reconciliation and mutual trust and leads to conditions much more advantageous to Germany. The DNVP, subordinating the subtleties of Stresemann's foreign policy to a hollow nationalist rhetoric, leaves the government in protest against Locarno. The government continues to rely on the old minority coalition, led by the Center and the DVP, with some tacit support from the SPD.[18]



September-October 1939

Following instructions issued by SS chief Reinhard Heydrich “the leading strata of the population should be rendered harmless” the SS killed some 20,000 Poles, mainly priests, politicians and academics, in September and October 1939.[19]



October 19, 1939

Germany incorporates western Poland into the Reich and establishes the first Jewish ghetto in Lublin.[20]



October 19, 1940

The Jewish census is completed in the Seine Department (the city of Paris). Begun October 3 under German orders, it is used by the Prefecture of Police to create a Jewish census index that will be instrumental in drawing up lists of Jews for arrest and deportation.

In Paris, the Criminal Investigation Department of the police organizes the census, with the required forms collected from Jews at their local police stations. The size of the task makes it necessary, by the end of October to establish a special section at the Prefecture of Police. The Jewish census file office, called the “Tulard service” after Adre Tulard, director of the office, is charged with classifying census declarations, establishing the card file index, receiving late forms, examining cases of arrested Jews who have not filed forms, and using the files to provide information requested by the police or administration. The files classify Jews in four ways; by name, nationality, street address, and occupation’

The census in Paris registers 85,664 French Jews and 64,070 foreign Jews, a total of 149,734 persons. The Jewish population of the rest of occupied France totals an estimated 20,000.[21]



October 1940 to January 1941

The deaths of people badly cared for, undernourished, and exposed to the elements during the rigorous winters of 1940, 1941 and 1942, were in fact deliberate assassinations. The Vichy government, “anti-France”, in the words of Dr. J. Weil, whose work on concentration camps is considered authoritative, has shown itself guilty of these crimes. What other name can be given, for example, to the mortality in the camp of Gurs? There were 15 deaths in October, 1940; 180 in November; 270 in December; 140 in January, 1941…



October 19, 1940: A voluminous report issued by Dannecker draws a detaild picture of the Jewish population of Paris, which has fallen from 149,934 on October 19, 1940, to 139,979 in the spring of 1941. The report counts 34,557 children under 15 years of age, 24.7 percent of the total Jewish population. The numbers reported for the next age group, those aged 15 through 25, are strikingly small: only 3,838, or 2.8 percent of the total, apparently because they are prisoners of war, in hiding, or simply have refused to comply with the Jewish census.[22]



• October 1941: Himmler orders the construction of a camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II). Construction begins in October 1941 and continues until March 1942.[23]



October 19, 1941

Joseph Stalin announces that he is remaining in Moscow to defend the city fromn German attacks.[24]



• October 19, 1941: Jews are murdered in Belgrave.[25]



• October 19-September 28, 1943?: Luxembourg Jews are deported to Lodz in eight transports.[26]

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• October 1942: Roosevelt once more spoke out of the crimes, declaring that those responsible would receive “just and sure punishment.”

• Neither in this statement nor in the one issued in August did he refer to Jewish victims.[27]



• October 1942: Efforts by the United States and other governments to persuade the Vatican to voice public condemnation of Nazi atrocities against civilians came to nothing.[28]



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• Convoy BW 1968, October 19, 1942

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• Paula Gottliebova nee Fuchsova was born in Czechoslovakia on February 14, 1874 to Abraham and Rosa nee Kohn. She was a housewife and married to Daniel. Prior to WWII whe lived in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia. Deported on transport Bw arrived at Terezin (Theresienstadt) from the Czech Republic on transport Bw1968 on October 19, 1942. According to this source she survived to be liberated.[29] According to testimony given by an extended family member in Yad Vashem she died in 1942 at Treblinka.



The extermination process in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka (located in the far east of Poland near the borders with Byelorussia and Ukraine) was similar to the “well tried” method used in the six euthanasia killing centers in Germany and Austria”. As a guise the victims were told that they were being transported east for resettlement and work. Upon arrival at the centers the following procedures were used;



Deception (“You must get a shower in the bathroom!”).

Handing over the valuables (enrichment for the German Reichsbank).

Undressing (realization of the clothings and finding of hidden jewelry).

Cooping up the victims in the gas chamber (as narrow as possible to minimize the air volume).

Use of carbon monoxide gas (CO) (dischards through the gaspipes.)[30]



• Julie Gottlobova born December 18, 1871. Transport AAm- Olomouc, Terezin July 4, 1942.

• Bw- October 19, 1942 Treblinka.[31]



• October 19, 1942: Daniel Gottlieb April 6, 1876. Bw – October 19, 1942 Treblinka.

• Exemption to live.[32]



• Ota Gottlieb, born January 25, 1877. Bw- October 19, 1942 Treblinka. He lived, liberation.[33]

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• October 1943: Haaretz reported in 2006 that Holocaust survivor groups here have joined the recommendation of the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, to award the Nobel Peace Prize to 96 year old Irena Sandler. Sandler, who was a member of the Polish

• Underground group Zegota that was dedicated to saving Jews, was recognized by the Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in 1965 for smuggling numerous Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The children received false papers and were either adopted by Christian families or sent to convents. Sandler, however, recorded the real names of 2,500 children on lists that were placed in glass jars and buried, with the hope that the youngsters would eventurally be returned to their families. The Gestapo arrested Sandler in Ocdotber 1943. Despite being tortured, she refuesed to reveal the children’s identity, and was senteced to death by a Nazi court. The underground group freed her and she lived in hiderng under an assumed identity.[34]

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• October 1957: The Soviet Union puts Sputnik, the first satelite, into orbit. Von Braun tells the secretary of state, that we could do the same thing, in 60 days. In 80 days they do. [35]



1962
• We choose to go the moon in this decade and to do the other things…not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energy’s and skills. –John F. Kennedy
• Werner von Braun goes from being Hitler’s manager to the man Kennedy pins his hopes on.[18][36]





October 19, 1987

The New York Stock Exchange Dow Jones Industrial average falls a record 508 points in the worst stock market crash in history.[37] Kelly Goodlove works in the stock index pit at the Chicago Board of trade while nine months pregnant with Jillian. Jillian will be born the next day.



October 19, 2009



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From Charlotte Fietek,

Subject: 63 years later
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving... There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' .. She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming. In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.


From Jeff,

Thank you Charlotte



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[1] (Ledger A, 329).

[2] Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity 1748-1820 with notes by Franklin B. Dexter, M.A. 1899. pg.101.

[3] After the death of Valentine Crawford, Col. John Stephenson (Valentine’s half—brother), was appointed administrator to the Valentine Crawford estate, but later declined, as per record in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

[4]The administrators in this settlement were changed from the half—brother, John Stephenson to the son—in—law, John Minter, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Valentine Crawford, deceased. Note also, the importance of time in this case, regulated by court orders and recorded at a proper date.

(From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969. pp. 94-95.)

[5] These were probably the lands that might have gone to George Washington, had they not been sold as the court ordered. Further research is required to clear this real estate question.

(From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, pages 95-96.)



[6] Widipedia



[7] October 19, 1864; Cedar Creek, VA

U.S.A. 588 Killed, 3516 Wounded

1801 Missing or Captured

Bri. Gen. Thornburn Killed

C.S.A. 3000 Killed and Wounded

1200 Missing or Captured

Maj. Gen. Ramseur Killed

(Civil War Battles of 1864), http://users.aol.com/dlharvey/1864bat.htm



[8] UNION IOWA VOLUNTEERS, 24th Regiment, Iowa Infantry: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/template.cfm?unitname=24th%20Regiment%2C%20Iowa%20Infantry&unitcode=UIA0024RI



[9] In all the operations of its brigade and divisions, from the 23d of September until the 19th of October, upon which latter date the Twenty Fourth Iowa fought its last battle, the regiment performed its full share of duty and always acquitted itself with honor. Although it remained in the service for nearly six months after the battle of Cedar Creek, the remainder of its history, while characterized by same faithful devotion to duty, was not marked by further severe conflict with the enemy. The compiler deems it most fitting, therefore, that the conduct of the regiment in the memorable battle of Cedar Creek, as portrayed in the official report of its gallant commander, should occupy the greater portion of the space left at his disposal for this historical sketch. In this, one of the most remarkable battles of the great War of the Rebellion, the Twenty-fourth Iowa suffered heavy loss, and ended its battle history by as splendid and heroic fighting as was ever exhibited upon any battlefield. The official report is here given in full:



Headquarter Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Camp Russell, VA., Nv. 19, 1864.

Colonel:

I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Twenty-fourth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., on the 19th of October, 1864. The regiment belonged to the Fourth Brigade, Second Division. Nineteenth Army Corps, Brevet Major General Emory commanding corps, Brigadiar General Grover commanding division, and Colonel Shunk, Eighth Indiana Veteran Volunteers, commanding brigade. The brigade Occupied the left of the second line, which was about two hundred paces in rear of the lines of works ovcupied by the first line. The left of the brigade rested about two hundred yards to the right of the pike leading from Winchester to Staanton. The works in our front were occupied by the Third Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps with Battery D, First Rhode Island Artillery, near the pike on the left. The regiment occupied the right center of the brigade, with the Twenty-eighth Iowa on the left. The Eighth Corps, under command of Major General Crook, was posted on the left of the pike, and about three hundred paces to the front. The Sixth Corps was on the right of the Nineteenth, with its right thrown back toward Middletown, about one mile./ Our teams parked about one mile in the rear. The enemy was in camp at Fisher’s Hill, some four miles to the front. In this position we rested on the evening of the 18th, not even suspecting out danger, or the Yankee trick that Early was going to play on us the next morning.



Soon after retiring to bed, Colonel Wilds, then in command of the regiment, received orders to have the men under arms at precisely 5 o’clock next morning, as the first line was to make a reconnaissance to the front, and the Fourth Brigade was to move up to the works as soon as vacated. In obedience to this order at 6 o’clock the regiment was in line of battle, and ready to move to the works. Having reason to believe that the reconnaissance would not last more than one or two hours, as the order was not to bring on an engagement, everything except, arms and accouterments were left in tents. At ten minutes past 5 o’clock, firing commenced on the picket line of the Eighth Corps. Supposing it to by only a reconnaissance by the enemy, it created but little alarm. In a few minutes heavy firing commenced on the left and front of the Eighth Corps. It was not yet daylight, and a dense fog, which had settled to the ground, rendered it almost impossible to distinguish objects at any distance. Soon after the firing commenced on the left, the brigade was ordered to move by the left flank, until the left of the Twenty-fourth Iowa rested on the pike. Colonel Wilds ordered me to ride to the left of the regiment, and to lead it to the place indicated, but, before reaching the pike, I was ordered to halt and take position, as we were already receiving the enemy’s fire. The regiment was halted, and the right thrown forward so as to form a line across the crest of the hill, at an angle of forty-five degress with the pike. The right of the brigade, Eighteenth Indiana Veteran Volunteers, supporting the battery on the left of the first line. The fog was so dense that it was impossible to tell what was in front of us, and, as the Eighth Corps was failing back at the time, our fire was reserved until the enemy had pressed his columns close up to and charged the battery on the right, one piece of which was captured. We held the position, however, until Colonel Shunk, discovering that the enemy had thrown a column across the pike on our left, ordered the brigade to fall back about five hundred yards, and take position parallel to and facing the pike. This was done in food order, and the position taken and held, until it became necessary, in the opinion of General ‘Grover, to fall back, in order to prevent being cut off entirely. (Up to this time the regiment had lost six men killed and about forty wounded.) The order was given to fall back as rapidly as possible in heavy force on our left and captured four officers and about forty men. The brigade fell back about one mile and formed between the First Brigade, General Brge, and the Sixth Corps, which was on the left.

Previous to this time Colonel Wilds had been wounded and carried from the field. I had also received a bruise on my hip froma piece of shell and a wound from a musket ball in the left arm near the elbow, which sickened me so that I could not ride for near an hour, and the regiment was commanded by Captain L. Clark, during my absence. Soon after I returned to the regiment, which was then in the position above mentioned, the enemy made a flank movement to the left of the Sixth Corps, rendering it necessary for it to fall back, and we were ordered to retire by the right of regiments to the rear. We moved in this manner nearly three mile, halted, took position, procured ammunition and prepared to renew the battle. After we had rested about half an hour, Major
General Sheridan came on the field, having been absent since the morning of the 18th. He ordered the Eighth Corps to take position on the left of the pike between Middletown and Newtown, the Sixth Corps the center, and the Nineteenth Corps the right. Sent two division of cavalry to the right, and one to the left. The Forth Brigade was formed on the extreme left of the Nineteenth Corps, connecting with the right of the Sixth Corps. In this position the troops were ordered to rest, and throw up some temporary works.



About 12 O’clock I was ordered to move the Twenty-forth Iowa to the extreme right of the Nineteenth Corps, and protect the flank, I immediately moved to the place indicated, took position and threw out a skirmish line. In this position I remained until 3 o’clock P.M., when I received orders to call in my skirmishers and take my place in the line, as it was going to advance. My skirmishers had just reported when the advance was sounded. In order to get my position in the line, I had to double quick about one mile, and, during the greater part of this distance, we had to pass through the fire of the enemy’s guns, which overshot our advancing columns, the shells exploding in the rear. About 3 o’clock, I got my place in the line, which, steadily advanced, driving the enemy from every position taken until we reached the camp we left in the morning. Here we halted and made some coffee, (those of us who were fortunate enough to have any,) the first we had tasted since the evening of the 18th. We found one wounded officer there, who had hidden among the rocks during the day, and qite a number of our wounded men. Everything was taken from our camp, leaving the men and most of the officers without haversacks, blankets or shelter tents. At 8 o’clock P.M., the regiment moved forward, with the brigade, to a point near Strasburg, to protect the parties that were sent our to collect the property abandoned by the enemy in his hasty retreat. There we bivouacked for the night, without fires, the men suffering severely for want of blankets and proper clothing to protect them from the excessive cold.

It would appear invidious to mention individual cases of gallantry, during the day, when all, both men and officers, did their whole duty. I cannot close, however, without referring to the bravery of our lamented Colonel Wilds, who was wounded soon after daylight and died November 18th. In him we lost a noble, brave and efficient officer. Captain Knott and Lieuteant Kurtz were wounded and captured, but both were retaken in the evening. Captain Smith, and lieutenant Davis, were captured in the morning about daylight. The loss of the regiment was: Killed; enlisted men 7; Wounded; officers 6, enlisted men 39. Captured; officers 2, enlisted men 39. Total casualties 93. Captured; officers 2, enlisted men 39. Total casualties 93; a list of which is hereto annexed.



Ed Wright, Lieutenant Colonel Twenty-fourth Regiment, Iowa Infantry Volunteer.

H. B. Baker, Adjutant General State of Iowa.

Report of Adjutant General of Iowa, 1865, Vol. 2 pages 1157-1159

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ia/county/linn/civil war/24th/24 history p2.htm



Numerical list of casualties in Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, in the engagement of October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Va.

Killed Wounded Missing

Officers Men Officers Men Officers Men Total

First

Brigade 2 26 9 139 5 176 357

Second

Brigade 2 18 13 161 2 90 286

Third

Brigade 1 19 9 82 3 206 320 Fourth

Brigade 3 23 19 184 6 97 332 First

Maine

Battery 1 2 1 16 0 8 28 Total 1325

(Cedar Creek Report, Commander, Second Division, 19th Corps, OR, 43, 322-5)







[10] Company H lost four men wounded, including Captain [Abraham] R. Knott and four prisoners; total eight men. (Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Part II Record of Events Volume 20 Serial no. 32. Broadfoot Publishing Company Wilmington, NC 1995.)

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