08/08/2025
Out of the 500 who enlisted from Clarke County, these 86 did not return to their families. The oldest were in their 40's, the youngest still teenagers. Many were not old enough to vote and some had been born in other countries and may not yet have become a naturalized citizen.
Too many of them died of disease; some before they left the training camps here in Iowa.
It was written in the 1886 History of Clarke County that only one man in the county had been drafted.
A curated virtual cemetery.
