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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 513 Lieutenant Hans Enstrom, commissioned October 111, 1861; pro- moted first lieutenant March 30, 1862, and captain May 30, 1862 ; resigned August 2, 1862. Company K, Captain Clinton Gurnee, enrolled October 23, 1861; dismissed December 1. 1862. First Lieutenant Edward L. Baker, enrolled October 10, 1861; pro- moted captain December 1, 1862; resigned February 10, 1861. Second Lieutenant Willit W. DeKay, enrolled October 23, 1861; promoted first lieutenant December 1, 1862, and captain February 11, 1861; resigned January 9, 1865. Goodhue county had eighty- five soldiers in Company D, ninety in Company E, six in Company F, two in Company G, one in Company II and one in Company K. FOURTH INFANTRY. The 1th Infantry was organized December 23, 1861. Ordered to Benton Barracks. Mo., April 19, 1862. Assigned to Army of the Mississippi May 4, 1862. Participated in the following marches, battles, sieges and skirmishes : Siege of Corinth, April, 1862; Iuka, September 19, 1862; Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862; siege of Vicksburg, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, assault of Vicksburg, capture of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. Transferred to 17th corps, to 15th corps. Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Veteranized January, 1864. Alatoona, July, 1864; Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas; Bentonsville, March 20, 1865. Mustered out at Louisville, Ky., July 19, 1865. Dis- charged at Fort Snelling. The commissioned officers from Good- hue county were : Company D, Second Lieutenant Harrison M. Stanton, enrolled October 10, 1861; died at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., June 8, 1862. Solomon F. Brown, enrolled October 8, 1861 ; promoted second lieutenant June 9, 1862 ; first lieutenant November 4, 1862; resigned by reason of wounds, March 16, 1864. Goodhue county bad forty-two soldiers in Company D and one in Company F. FIFTH INFANTRY. The 5th Infantry was organized in May, 1862. Ordered to Pittsburg Landing May 9, 1862. A detachment of three com- panies remained in Minnesota, garrisoning frontier posts. Par- ticipated in the following marches, battles, sieges and skirmishes: Siege of Corinth, April and May, 1862. The detachment in Min- nesota engaged in battle with Indians at Redwood. Minn., August 18, 1862. Siege of Fort Ridgely, August 20, 21 and 22, 1862; Fort Abercrombie. D. T., August. 1862. Regiment assigned to 16th army corps. Engaged in the battles of Iuka. September 18, 1862; Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862; Jackson, Tenn.. May 14, 1863. Siege of Vicksburg; assault of Vicksburg, May 22, 1863; .Mechanicsburg, June 3, 1863; Richmond, June 15. 1863; Fort