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Pleasant Deardorff (son of John Deardorff and Apharacia Johnson)651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656 was born 29 Jul 1831 in Indiana, and died 05 Dec 1872 in Winterset, IA. He married (1) Catherine Carr Chadwick. He married (2) Rebecca Jane Gorsuch on 23 Aug 1851 in Mahaska, IA, USA657, daughter of Joshua Gorsuch and Mary Bosley.

 Includes NotesNotes for Pleasant Deardorff:
40th Regiment, Iowa Infantry


Organized at Iowa City and mustered in November 15, 1862. Moved to Columbus, Ky., December 17. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., 16th Army Corps, Dept. of Tennessee, to June, 1863. Kimball's Provisional Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Kimball's Provisional Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Arkansas Expedition, to January, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.-Duty at Columbus, Ky., till March 3, 1863. Moved to Paducah, Ky., and duty there till May 31. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., May 31-June 3. Siege of Vicksburg June 3-July 4. Moved to Helena, Ark., July 23. Steele's Expedition to Little Rock August 1-5 op- tember 10. Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock September 10. Duty at Little Rock till March, 1864. Steele's Expedition to Camden March 23-May 3. Okalona April 2-3. Prairie D'Ann April 9-12. Camden April 16-18. Moro Bottom April 25. Near Princeton April 28. Jenkins Ferry, Saline River, April 30. Duty at Little Rock till August 24. At Brownsville Station August 24- September 4. At Little Rock till February, 1865. Ex- pedition to Mt. Elba January 22-February 4. At Fort Smith and Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, till June. Mus- tered out June 5, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 19 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 184 Enlisted men by disease. Total 205.



More About Pleasant Deardorff:
Date born 2: 29 Jul 1831, IA, USA.658
Date born 3: 29 Jul 1831, IN, USA.659
Date born 4: 29 Jul 1831, Indiana, USA.660
Date born 5: 29 Jul 1831, Indiana, USA.661
Date born 6: 1842, Indiana.662
Burial: 05 Dec 1872, Ebenezer Cemetery, Madison County, Iowa.
Civil: Iowa.663
Died 2: 1872, IA, USA.664
Died 3: 1879, Madison, IA, USA.665
Died 4: 1879, Madison, Iowa, USA.666
Died 5: 1879, Madison, Iowa, USA.667
Military 1: 1864, 40th Iowa Infantry, Company B.
Military 2: 14 Aug 1862, Iowa.668
Residence 1: 1870, Walnut, Madison, Iowa.669
Residence 2: Montezuma, Iowa.670

More About Pleasant Deardorff and Rebecca Jane Gorsuch:
Marriage 1: 23 Aug 1851, Mahaska, IA, USA.671
Marriage 2: 23 Aug 1851, Mahaska, Iowa, USA.672

Children of Pleasant Deardorff and Catherine Carr Chadwick are:
  1. Mary Deardorff, b. 1856, IA, USA673.
  2. John Deardorff, b. 1859, KS, USA673.
  3. Emma Louella Deardorff, b. 09 Aug 1867, Madison, IA, USA673.
  4. Charles Deardorff, b. 04 Jan 1870, Madison, IA, USA673.
  5. +Pleasant Harland Deardorff, b. 05 Nov 1872, Madison, IA, USA673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, d., Colorado.

Children of Pleasant Deardorff and Rebecca Jane Gorsuch are:
  1. Minerva Jane Deardoff, b. 14 May 1853, IA, USA679, d. 24 Jun 1937, IA, USA679.
  2. Mary Apharacia Deardorff, b. 1855680.
  3. Frank Deardorff, b. 1859681, 682.
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