Lewis Graves, son of Ole Olson Graue (later changed to Graves) and Barbra Meringen enlisted in 1862 as a member of the Company K Thirty-eighth Iowa Volunteer Infantry for service in the Civil War and died in a hospital at New Orleans September 4, 1863. He defended the North for approximately a year before being captured and held at Andersonville Prison in New Orleans. Lewis’ sister-in-law, Mrs. Knut (Jane Thune) Graves wrote the following sketch: “Lars went to the army when he was 18 years old. At the time his people were very hard up and I know that my mother told us children that he did not have shoes to wear when they were told to come to Frankville to practice before they were called into service. He was a good Christian boy and suffered much (for that reason) from some of his comrades. They were stationed in a place where they had to stand in a slough for three days to keep off the enemy. They, or most of them, got a a bad dysentery. He was very sick but was up and around again when a comrade got sick and he took care of him, then suffered a relapse and died. He was buried in or near New Orleans. (History of Iowa Published 1883) The Thirty-Eighth Infantry was recruited in August 1862 and mustered into the service of the United States at Dubuque, November 4. The regiment participated in the siege of Vicksburg and Bank’s Red River Expedition. Of its 910 men one was killed, 314 died, 120 discharged, 2 wounded, and 14 were transferred.
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