John S. WICKHAM ¹

  General Notes:

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS:
Name: John Wickham
Residence: Windsor, Iowa
Enlistment Date: 1 Apr 1863
Side Served: Union
State Served: Iowa
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 1 April 1863 at the age of 18.
Enlisted in Company F, 7th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 17 May 1863.
Died of disease Company F, 7th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 28 Jul 1863 at Davenport, IA Hospl.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REGIMENTS:
REGIMENT: 7th Cavalry Regiment Iowa
Date of Organization: 27 Apr 1863
Muster Date: 22 Jun 1866
Regiment State: Iowa
Regiment Type: Cavalry
Regiment Number: 7th
Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 1
Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 1
Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 29
Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 93
Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers

Regimental History Seventh Cavalry IOWA
(3 YEARS)

Seventh Cavalry. Cols., Samuel W. Summers, Herman H. Heath; Lieut.-Col., John Pattee; Majs., Herman H. Heath, George W. O'Brien, John S. Wood, James B. David. The formation of the 7th cavalry proceeded slowly and it was finally organized at Camp Hendershott, Davenport in the summer of 1863, by a consolidation of companies which had been previously assigned to other organizations.

Two companies were mustered into service on April 27, two more the day following, two more on June 3, one on the 16th, and one on July 13. Meanwhile, three companies of the 41st infantry and a company of Sioux City independent cavalry, were transferred to this regiment by orders of the war department. Nearly a month before the completion of the organization, Maj. Heath marched for Omaha, Neb., with six companies of the regiment, which were stationed at different posts in the territory. In September Col. Summers, with the headquarters of the regiment, and the two companies which had been left at Davenport, marched also to Omaha, at which place headquarters remained until about the middle of July, 1864. But during the entire service of the regiment the different companies were scattered over a wide extent of territory, each actively engaged in the heavy duties required of troops at frontier posts, in a country constantly threatened and frequently invaded by a savage enemy.

They garrisoned posts, escorted trains, protected emigrants, guarded lines of travel and telegraph, and had frequent combats with the Indians who had been induced by some means to unbury the tomahawk and wage savage warfare against the whites. The loss of the regiment during its term of service was as follows: deaths from battle, 49; deaths from disease, 99; wounded, 8; discharged, 246.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4

Battles Fought:
Fought on 3 Sep 1863 at Sackett's Station, DT.
Fought on 16 Aug 1864 at Smoky Hill Crossing, KS.
Fought on 2 Sep 1864 at Plum Creek, NE.
Fought on 8 Sep 1864 at Fort Cottonwood, NE.
Fought on 18 Sep 1864 at Fort Cottonwood, NE.
Fought on 4 Dec 1864 at Cow Creek, KS.
Fought on 7 Jan 1865 at Julesburg, CO.
Fought on 18 Jan 1865 at Fort Heath, NE.
Fought on 8 Feb 1865 at Rush Creek, NE.
Fought on 3 Jun 1865 at Boyd's Station.
Fought on 14 Jun 1865 at Horse Creek, DT.
Fought on 29 Oct 1865 at Alkali, NE.
Fought on 26 Jan 1866 at Black River, KS.
Fought on 14 Jun 1866 at Horse Creek, DT.

FROM WEB-SITE: MY FAMILY IN THE CIVIL WAR:
Pvt John S. Wickham; Co F 7th IA Cav; Born 1846 Iowa; son of Orrison and Lydia Ann (Ginther) Wickham; died of disease July 28, 1863 at Davenport, Scott Co IA; buried National Cemetery at Rock Island IL.

HISTORY OF FAYETTE CO, IA - 1878: p. 442, "War Records of Fayette Co - 7th Cavalry, Comp. F.": John S. Wickham, enlisted April 1, 1863, died July 28, 1863, in regimental hospital.

1910 HISTORY OF FAYETTE CO, IA:
Civil War Soldiers Index
Orison Wickham p. 254
R. Wickham p. 255
John S. Wickham, p. 256