William Henry Montgomery (1845 - 1863)

Born 25 Jun 1845 in , Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 21 Sep 1863 at age 18 in Rochester, Iowa, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Steven Montgomery [send private message]

Biography

Research Notes

Note: died in civil war: 8th Iowa Cav. Co K

From Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheets supplied by Linda (MUNN)

Violante (Great-Granddaughter of Mary Jane Montgomery [married to John

Munn]),

2515 Ann Arbor Lane, Bowie MD 20176, Ph: 301-390-9093, Fax:

301-390-7801, E-Mail: [email address removed]

Linda has 24 Jun 1845 as Birth date and place as Pennsylvania.

From Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheets supplied by Linda (MUNN)

Violante (Great-Granddaughter of Mary Jane Montgomery [married to John

Munn]),

2515 Ann Arbor Lane, Bowie MD 20176, Ph: 301-390-9093, Fax:

301-390-7801, E-Mail: [email address removed]

Linda has death date as: 21 Sep 1862 and place: Rochester, Iowa.

-----

Name: William Montgomery ,

Enlistment Date: 20 August 1863

Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE

Side Served: Union

State Served: Iowa

Unit Numbers: 180 180

Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 20 August 1863

Enlisted in Company K, 8th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 20 August 1863.

Accidentally killed Company K, 8th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 21 September 1863

-----

Regiment: 8th Cavalry Regiment IA

Date Mustered: 13 August 1865

Regiment Type: Cavalry

Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 3

Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 37

Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 2

Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers

Regimental History

Eighth Cavalry IOWA

(3 YEARS)

Eighth Cavalry. Cols., Joseph B. Dorr, Horatio G. Barner;

Lieut.-Col., Horatio G. Barner, Majs., J. J. Brown, James D.

Thompson, A. J. Price, Richard Root, John H. Isett, E. Shurtz,

J. W. Moore, John Dance, George W. Burns.

The 8th cavalry saw little of real war until the spring of

1864, when it started with Sherman in the celebrated campaign

for Atlanta. The regiment had been organized late in the

previous autumn at Davenport. It left Iowa in the middle of

October and by the middle of November was stationed at Waverly

and other points west of Nashville, Tenn., where it remained

on guard and garrison duty all the winter, with little

opportunity for showing the pluck of its soldiers and no

chance at all for distinction.

May-day, 1864, brought on the new campaign, and the 8th IA was

made a part of the 1st brigade of McCook's division of

cavalry. In all that arduous campaign the regiment was

constantly at the front, and when the Confederates, after

weeks of constant skirmishing and battles, at last fell back

behind the Chattahoochee, the 8th Iowa cavalry was the first

troop across the river after them. So the fighting and the

skirmishing went on around Atlanta, and then came that

luckless raid of Gen. McCook's to the Macon railroad, in which

the regiment was captured near Newnan, only a few escaping

through the woods to tell how heroically the command had tried

to save itself.

The late autumn found Col. Dorr exchanged, and with his

regiment, again ready for battle against Gen. Hood, who was

then invading Tennessee. It was engaged near Franklin, but

quietly fell back with the main army to take an important part

in the great battle and victory of Nashville. It participated

in a charge on the first day of the battle and in the rapid

pursuit of Hood, in which the whole Confederate army was

nearly annihilated, the 8th cavalry did its full share of hard

riding.

Late in March, 1865, the regiment was at Chickasaw, Ala.,

eager to join the other Iowa cavalry there in the grandest

raid of the war -- the march of Wilson to Selma, Columbus and

Macon. On Aug. 13, the regiment was mustered out at Macon and

started for Iowa, its honorable and patriotic career complete.

Its losses were as follows: deaths from battle, 16; deaths

from disease 168; wounded, 15; discharged, 64.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4

Sources

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Everyone.ged on 20 October 2010.