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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COl TY 515 SEVENTH INFANTRY. The 7th Infantry was organized in August, L862, and ordered on expedition againsl the Indians. Engaged in battle oJ Wood Lake September 22. I^ti-J. Stationed at frontier posts until May. L863, when again ordered on an Indian expedition. Engaged with Indians July 24. 26 and 28, 1863. Ordered to St. Louis. .Mo.. October 7. 1st;::, thence to Paducah, Ky.. April. 1864, thence to Memphis, Term., and assigned to 16th army corps -June. 1864. Participated in the following marches, battles, sieges and skir- mishes: Tupelo, July, 1864; Tallahatchie. Augusl 7 and 8, Ls(i4. Marched in pursuit of Price from Brownsville, Ark., to ('ape Girardeau, thence by boal to Jefferson City, thence to Kansas line, thence to St. Louis. .Mn. Battles id' Nashville, Tenn., De- cember lo and 16, 1864; Spanish Port and Fori Blakely, April. I860. Discharged at Port Snelling Augusl 16. 1865. The com- missioned officers from Goodhue county were: Company G, Captain William ('. Williston, enrolled Augusl Li 1863; re- signed January 20. 1864. First Lieutenant Herman Letcher, en- rolled August 14. 1862; promoted captain February 6. 1864; dis- charged with the regiment. Second Lieutenant Daniel Dens- more, enrolled August 14. 1S62; promoted first lieutenant Feb- ruary 6, 1864; commissioned major in 68th L. S. C. Infantry. Goodhue county had ninety-one soldiers in Company G and two in Company F. EIGHTH INFANTRY. The 8th Infantry was organized August 1, 1862. Stationed at frontier posts until May. 1864, when ordered upon Indian expe- dition. Engaged in the following battles, sieges, skirmishes and marches: Tat-eha-o-ku-tu. July 28, 1864: battle of the Cedars and Overall's Creek. Ordered to Clifton. Tenn.. thence to Cin- cinnati, Ohio, thence to Washington, thence to Wilmington, thence to Newbern, N. C. Battles of Kingston, March 8. 9 and 10, 1865. Mustered out at Charlotte. N. C, July 11, 1865. Dis- charged at Fort Snelling. The commissioned officers from Good- hue county were : Company H, Captain George G. McCoy, en- rolled August 29, 1862; resigned March 16, 1865. Goodhue county had five soldiers in Company F. one in Company G and thirty-five in Company II. ELEVENTH INFANTRY. The 11th Infantry was organized in August, 1864. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn. Engaged in guarding railroad between Nashville and Louisville until mustered out of regiment. June 26, 1865. The commissioned officer from Goodhue county was