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Note: By Guy E. Logan HISTORICAL SKETCH
THIRD REGIMENT IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
The companies composing the Second and Third regiments of Iowa Infantry Volunteers were organized and ready to respond to the first call of President Lincoln for troops, but as only one regiment from Iowa could be accepted under that call these companies were compelled to wait during the brief time that intervened before the second call was issued. The Second and Third were then ordered into quarters by Governor Kirkwood, and his order was so promptly obeyed that there was but little difference in the dates upon which these three regiments assembled at the designated rendezvous, Keokuk, Iowa. There, on the 8th and 10th days of June, 1861, the ten companies composing the Third regiment were mustered into the service of the United States by Lieutenant Alexander Chambers of the regular army, for the term of three years. On June 27, 1861-only seventeen days after its last company was mustered-the regiment embarked on the steamers, Gate City and Hamilton Belle, and was conveyed to Hannibal, Mo., there to await further orders. The First and Second regiments had reached Hannibal only a few days before, and were then engaged in taking possession of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and in preventing the concentration of the bands of rebel troops then being raised in that part of Missouri. The Third Regiment was at once assigned to the same duty. From Hannibal it was transported by rail to Utica, Mo., on the line of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, where it went into camp.
Enlisted as a Private on 22 May 1861 at the age of 27.
Enlisted in Company C, 3rd Infantry Regiment Iowa on 8 Jun 1861.
Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on 1 Feb 1863.
Transferred into Company F, 2nd Infantry Regiment Iowa on 15 Aug 1864.
Transferred out of Company C, 3rd Infantry Regiment Iowa on 15 Aug 1864.
Mustered Out Company F, 2nd Infantry Regiment Iowa on 3 Jul 1865.
No record of the first teachers is available, but because of the fine treasurer`s record book it is possible to list all of the teachers from 1872 up to 1906. During the early 1870`s, summer and winter sessions were common. Men teachers were seemingly preferred according to the following: Evelyn A. Flagg and Hiram White 1872.; Melora Shove and W. H. Hutchinson 1873; W. H. Hutchinson and Evelyn A. Flagg 1874-75; P. E. Nagle 1876; Wm. Leith 1877; Etta Solberg 1878; C. J. Hutchinson 1879-80;
Served in the 3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Although several sources show his nativity as from Scotland or Ireland, he was in fact born in Vermont. He was a POW in Andersonville for about nine months. He had traveled from Minnesota to Florida shortly before his death. At the time of his death, Henry (as he was called) was living with his daughter, Ida Belle Hutchinson Cralle. Ida Belle Cralle's daughter, Esther June Cralle, married Paul B Dickman, beloved pioneer of Ruskin, Hillsborough County, Florida.
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