A roster of Civil War veterans officially prepared in the year 1891, showed the names of eighty-one men residing in the county, who wore the blue uniform of their country during the '60s. and now that a generation has passed this number has been lessened to barely a dozen survivors. The ranks have been reduced principally by death, there being fifty-two graves of Civil War soldiers in Greenwood cemetery at Alliance, and twenty-one at Hemingford. A few have moved to other states, and those still remaining in the county in 1921 are:

Albert Wiker, 11th Iowa Infantry, Alliance; Robert Garrett, 24th Iowa Infantry, Alliance ; Aaron Pool, 89th Illinois Infantry, Alliance ; Joseph B. Denton, 139th Pennsylvania Infantry, Alliance ; James Dickey, 98th New York Infantry, Alliance; Elsa Vaughn, 8th Iowa Cavalry, Alliance ; Cal. H. Underwood, 8th Missouri Infantry, Alliance; Fred Abley, 6th Michigan Infantry, Hemingford ; Alvin M. Miller, 76th Illinois Infantry, Hemingford; Robert Anderson, 127th U. S. Colored Infantry. Hemingford ; Augustin H. McLaughlin, 18th Iowa Infantry, Marsland ; Ambrose Hadley, 3d Rhode Island Infantry, Alliance ; Lewis R. Corbin, 83d Pennsylvania Infantry, Alliance.

Concerning the boys in service in the great World War, a list has come to the editor in chief which is added to the splendid story of Ira L. Tash, the county editor. This list may not be complete, but is presumed to be. There were three ways open to entrance in the service for the government army : enlistment, voluntary induction, and induction in the draft.