Thomas Gray enlisted in the Union Army on August 24, 1861. He was from the booming river town of Eddyville, Iowa, located in Mahaska County. After being mustered up the next month, Gray was engaged in some of the earliest battles of the Civil War. …
This is a picture of Wilfred M. Bauder, a bugler for Company H in the 168th Iowa Infantry, who was killed in action along the Ourcq River in France during World War I on July 28, 1918. Bauder was born on December 23, 1899, in Grinnell, Iowa, but…
