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When our forces advanced Monday mourning, Colonel Woods was recaptured, wounds dressed, and a few days after he was sent north where he was detailed on recruiting service and remained on duty in the State of Iowa until about January 1, 1863. When twenty years of age, he entered the Augusta College of Kentucky and after five months, received an appointment to West Point. General Gibbons, commanding brigade, admits that his brigade was repulsed four different times and because he felt sensitive over the matter of official reports, asked a court of inquiry. The expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River May 9, 1849--six months out of New York and having sailed twenty-two thousand miles--they proceeded up the river ninety miles to Fort Vancouver, the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Company, situated on the north bank of the Columbia River--what is now Washington.
During World War II, Blanche Ames designed, tested and patented a method for ensnaring enemy airplanes in wires hung from balloons.The duck farm, located on Purchase Street, was owned by James Rankin and employed a number of people. A television documentary about Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was filmed in the library of the Ames mansion.
The Second Iowa had the best chance for the honors at Donelson, but the Seventh, Twelfth and Fourteenth did nobly. The wheels were made from hickory, with twelve spokes in the front wheels and ten spokes in the rear. In 1850, residing at 41 Bay Road were Nathaniel, and his wife, Almira Belcher Talbot, with their two sons, Nathaniel Howard, and William Howard, and their daughter, Ellen M.At the turn of the century, this section of Easton consisted of the Town Hall, the Evangelical Congregational Church, the Almshouse, and the Center School, with the one-story Easton Center Depot a little to the east. The command marched to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, three hundred and thirty six mile in seventeen days; from Cape Girardeau to St.