ISAIAH CLARKSON JEPSON
Enlisted October 1, 1861, Company B, 14th Iowa Infantry.
Place of enlistment was Iowa City.
Transferred to 7th Iowa Cavalry, Company L, September 1863
Discharged February 28, 1864
Re-enlisted February 29, 1864
Discharged June 22, 1866 as First Sargeant, Company L, 7th Iowa Cavalry.
December 31, 1862 - June 1, 1863 detached service to Ft. La Frambuici,
(spelling is very difficult to read on my copy), Dakota Territory.
April 20, 1864 - August 21, 1864, detached service in Prairie Batt'y at
Sioux City, Iowa since April 9, 1864
February 28 & April 30, 1865 detached on recruiting service since
February 1, 1865.
Some of the wording is awkward but I have transcribed it verbatim.
Mr Jepson was born November 22, 1839 in China, Kenebeck county, Maine.
He came with his parents, Thomas Watson Jepson and Eliza Cook, in 1853
to Iowa City, Iowa. After the war, he owned a Photo Gallery in Iowa,
taught school for a time, was active in the womans suffrage movement and
helped start Temperance Union Temples. He was also a Quaker.
He married Elizabeth Ellen Ealy October 31, 1866 in Sioux City, Iowa.
They moved sometime after 1871 and before 1877 to Fillmore, California
where he was a well known rancher. He died April 8, 1918.
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Iowa In the Civil War
