The Missouri. Infantry, 45th Regiment, Volunteers, Company I, Sick report was donated to the State Historical Society by W. H. McGinness on September 7, 1976 (SHS Accession No. 2026).
The Missouri Infantry, 45th Regiment was recruited after the 10th Regiment's Colonel J.W. Bissel proposed in July 1861, that troops be enlisted from Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Company I came primarily from Iowa and the men were inducted under the supervision of T. J. Dean. The Company had 96 men on October 21, 1861. Dean was listed as Captain.
The sick report of Company I consists of one volume dating from December 10, 1864, to February 28, 1865. The report, compiled by Sergeant Richard B. Corson, lists soldiers who were ill in either General Hospital, Jefferson City, Missouri; General Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee; or in quarters. The report does not comment on the type of illness, only whether or not soldiers were excused from duty. The officers who endorsed the reports were Surgeon John G. Riddler and Assistant Surgeon James S. Rogers.
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