Lawrence E. Barber, who was the father of 10, enlisted as a Private in the Union Army on 15 August 1862 at the age of 38. He enlisted in Company A, 38th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 6 Sep 1862. His oldest son, also enlisted at the same time.
He received a disability discharge from Company A, 38th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 15 Jul 1863 at Vicksburg, MS. He died from his disabilities on 26 Sep 1866, just 3 years after his discharge or 4 years from his enlistment. Lawrence was buried in Dunham Grove Cemetery with a government provided headstone.
The story of his regiment is short and mournful. As an organization it never saw a battle, and yet no Iowa regiment in the service lost so many soldiers in so short a time. Out of a full strength of 910, not less than 311 were dead within year and a half, and another 110 had been discharged as broken down too much to serve, one of those was Lawrence E. Barber. This was well on to every other man, and all without a battle.
With the lost of the father and head of the house, life was hard for wife Leafy and her 8 remaining children: under the age of 16. And it all caught up to them when in 1883 two of the sons were arrested, but never tried but was hang, and Leafy as Mrs. L. E. Barber petitioned the cemetery so that they could be buried with Lawrence. Permission was granted with the stipulation that they be buried in the farthest southeast corner of the cemetery and that a monument never be erected to them.
After trying for many years to locate the grave of his wife, Leafy Ann Gill Barber, I was able to find it in Colorado where she died while living with one of her daughters, Anna "Annie" Mariah Barber, and son-in-law.
He received a disability discharge from Company A, 38th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 15 Jul 1863 at Vicksburg, MS. He died from his disabilities on 26 Sep 1866, just 3 years after his discharge or 4 years from his enlistment. Lawrence was buried in Dunham Grove Cemetery with a government provided headstone.
The story of his regiment is short and mournful. As an organization it never saw a battle, and yet no Iowa regiment in the service lost so many soldiers in so short a time. Out of a full strength of 910, not less than 311 were dead within year and a half, and another 110 had been discharged as broken down too much to serve, one of those was Lawrence E. Barber. This was well on to every other man, and all without a battle.
With the lost of the father and head of the house, life was hard for wife Leafy and her 8 remaining children: under the age of 16. And it all caught up to them when in 1883 two of the sons were arrested, but never tried but was hang, and Leafy as Mrs. L. E. Barber petitioned the cemetery so that they could be buried with Lawrence. Permission was granted with the stipulation that they be buried in the farthest southeast corner of the cemetery and that a monument never be erected to them.
After trying for many years to locate the grave of his wife, Leafy Ann Gill Barber, I was able to find it in Colorado where she died while living with one of her daughters, Anna "Annie" Mariah Barber, and son-in-law.
Lawrence E. Barber, who was the father of 10, enlisted as a Private in the Union Army on 15 August 1862 at the age of 38. He enlisted in Company A, 38th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 6 Sep 1862. His oldest son, also enlisted at the same time.
He received a disability discharge from Company A, 38th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 15 Jul 1863 at Vicksburg, MS. He died from his disabilities on 26 Sep 1866, just 3 years after his discharge or 4 years from his enlistment. Lawrence was buried in Dunham Grove Cemetery with a government provided headstone.
The story of his regiment is short and mournful. As an organization it never saw a battle, and yet no Iowa regiment in the service lost so many soldiers in so short a time. Out of a full strength of 910, not less than 311 were dead within year and a half, and another 110 had been discharged as broken down too much to serve, one of those was Lawrence E. Barber. This was well on to every other man, and all without a battle.
With the lost of the father and head of the house, life was hard for wife Leafy and her 8 remaining children: under the age of 16. And it all caught up to them when in 1883 two of the sons were arrested, but never tried but was hang, and Leafy as Mrs. L. E. Barber petitioned the cemetery so that they could be buried with Lawrence. Permission was granted with the stipulation that they be buried in the farthest southeast corner of the cemetery and that a monument never be erected to them.
After trying for many years to locate the grave of his wife, Leafy Ann Gill Barber, I was able to find it in Colorado where she died while living with one of her daughters, Anna "Annie" Mariah Barber, and son-in-law.
He received a disability discharge from Company A, 38th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 15 Jul 1863 at Vicksburg, MS. He died from his disabilities on 26 Sep 1866, just 3 years after his discharge or 4 years from his enlistment. Lawrence was buried in Dunham Grove Cemetery with a government provided headstone.
The story of his regiment is short and mournful. As an organization it never saw a battle, and yet no Iowa regiment in the service lost so many soldiers in so short a time. Out of a full strength of 910, not less than 311 were dead within year and a half, and another 110 had been discharged as broken down too much to serve, one of those was Lawrence E. Barber. This was well on to every other man, and all without a battle.
With the lost of the father and head of the house, life was hard for wife Leafy and her 8 remaining children: under the age of 16. And it all caught up to them when in 1883 two of the sons were arrested, but never tried but was hang, and Leafy as Mrs. L. E. Barber petitioned the cemetery so that they could be buried with Lawrence. Permission was granted with the stipulation that they be buried in the farthest southeast corner of the cemetery and that a monument never be erected to them.
After trying for many years to locate the grave of his wife, Leafy Ann Gill Barber, I was able to find it in Colorado where she died while living with one of her daughters, Anna "Annie" Mariah Barber, and son-in-law.
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