Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-01
Work Now Under Way Has Pro
gressed Sufficiently to Show
Magnitude Of Task
WILL MAKE DOZEN VOLUMES
System of Compilation Expected to Be
Improvement Over That of Other
States = To Be Complete Record of
All Recent Wars in Which Iowa Par
ticipated.
oecial to Times Republican.

Special to T!meS-Republfcan.
Des Moines. Aug. 1.-The roster OF
the First regiment is well on towards
completion and the clerks at the state
house have made good progress or
the roster of the Second and Third
regiments The First regiment was
the only one in this state that served
but three months. All the others
served considerably longer periods. But
the work has progressed SO far that
there is no doubling now that Col
G. w. Crossley and his corps of clerks
and assistants have a gigantic task
ahead OF them.
The roster commission has adopted
the paragraph form of preparing the
roster. This is the form in which the
New Hampshire and Michigan rosters
are printed Each soldier is given
one paragraph, the names being ar
ranged alphabetically in the compan-
les and the companies being arranged
under the regiment formations. AT
the head of each regiment is to be a
brief paragraph giving the history OF
the regiment and the brigade and di
vision and army to which it was at
tached
New Hampshire put it's roster all in
one immense volume. Michigan has
broken its roster into one volume for
each regiment. Iowa will strike a
happy medium and make the volumes
of convenient size for handling. There
will probably be about a dozen VOL
umes of the soldiers roster. The
pages will be 6x9 inches and the vol
imes will be about an inch and a half
or two inches thick. Ohio and other
states have the information compiled
in table forma ton lines and ruled
and the information in columns with
headings. The New Hampshire ana
Michigan style which has been adopted
for Iowa is as noted above the names
being arranged alphabetically and the
name to be the first of a parag graph
setting forth briefly the history of the
soldiers service with all important
data. It is believed this will be much
more convenient for reference.
Each soldiers record will be given
under the company and regiment so
far as it goes and will then be trans
ferred to the regiment to which he
was transferred. For instance. if a
soldier enlisted in one regiment and
at the expiration Of his enlistment went
into another regiment or by promo
ton went into another regiment. his
name appears in both places but the
record under the first regiment shows
only to the time he left it and it is
taken up again in the other regiment
and carried forward. At the close of
the record in the first regiment
suitable reference carries the reader
to the next regiment.
George D. Duffield Of Keosauqua has
sent to Colonel Crossley original mus
ter rolls of com pany that was mus
tered in there during the civil war for
service inside the state as home de-
tenders This company was under the
command of Capt. Emanuel Mayne and
afterwards became Company G. of the
Third Iowa. There are two copies OF
the muster roll one containing l16
names. The records in the adjutant-
generals office show only eighty-six,
and but for this original muster roll
the names of the others would prob
ably have been lost.
The muster rolls are considered
very great find by Colonel Crossley,
The company was first called the
Mounted Riflemen," and a notation on
one Of the muster rolls by Captain
Mayne says that the company, after
communication with a Missouri COM
pany of like origin, crossed the border
into Missouri, joined forces with the
Missouri company, and was in an en-
gagement with rebels.
The law that provides for the roster
provides for roster of all companies
they were mustered into the
regular army or not. 1t also provides
for rosters of those engaged in the In
dian wars, the Mexican war, Spanish
American war; and Philippines. For
those earlier wars, the Mexican and
Indian wars and for the companies
that were enlisted for service inside the
state along The southern border. the
commission anticipates some difficulty
In gathering the data. Everyone now
dulIlllS lidI iowa Is way DCHiHu lIlC
time in providing for its roster 1t
should have been done years ago when
the informa ton was fresh at hand.
1t is probable that it would not have
been under way now had 1t not been
for Representative McAlliSter, Of Linn,
who. tho everybody was laughing at
him. took advantage of a joint session
of the house and senate to pour hot
shot into the sena tors for not passing
The bill The next day they reconsd-
cred it and passed it,
Gen. Granville NJ Dodge and others
prominent as soldiers during the war
have written to the commission urging
it to do a good job of the roster. and
that if the appropriation is not suffi-
cient to ask the legislature for more.
They insist that the work better be no.
done a all than to be bur partly done.
The legislature appropriated $4,000,
and 1t is already readily apparent that