Rosters
Submitted by Ken Walling
Descendant of William H. Walling and James F. Neville
| William Harrison Walling: Was born on July 30, 1836 in
Hartford, Washington County, New York to Israel & Mary (Warren) Walling.
The family left New York and settled at Diamond Lake, Lake County, Illinois.
William H. and his mother (now widowed) with the rest of the family moved and
homesteaded in Mitchell County, Iowa in Oct. 1855, one mile south of the
Neville’s. On December 12, 1859 William H. & Nancy Ann Neville
married.
At the age of 25 Wm. H. enlisted with his father-in law with the 27th Iowa Infantry, Company K. His experience with the Regiment will take him to Vicksburg, Mississippi & Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas & other places of the western Confederacy. It was told that Wm. H. had a close encounter with the enemy at a school house that was converted to serve as a hospital, when a band of Rebel forces siege on to the hospital. The soldiers wore long trench coats that hung on the wall of this school house, now a hospital, when the Rebels came in to take the hospital, Wm. H. was able to get behind the trench coats and pull himself up by the coat hooks and hide behind the trench coats, all this time hoping that the coat hooks would not pull away from the wall, and thus avoided capture. He was mustered out of service on May 3, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa and went back home to his wife, Nancy. William H. became prominent in town affairs and was a member of the first board of trustees of the township. William H. Walling died on Feb. 6 1905. William H. & Nancy Ann had the following children:
2) William N. (b. Sept. 16, 1870 3) Cora B. (b. 1872 |