Company D, Non-commissioned

Company D, 11th Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers - Non-Commissioned Officers and Staff

Captain Loren Webb received a Constitutional Commission from the Governor of Minnesota in Saint Paul on 27 July 1864 for the purpose of recruiting men to assemble a Company for the 11th Regiment Minnesota Volunteers to fulfill the volunteer obligations of the 1st Congressional District of Minnesota. His commission was contingent on the condition that it would be null and void if he failed to assemble the company by 3 September 1864. Captain Webb had previously served as Captain of Company F, 9th Regiment Illinois Infantry, was wounded at Shiloh and resigned that commission in July 1862 due to illness, as well as serving as Adjutant-General to four companies of soldiers under General Sibley sent to quell the Sioux Uprising of 1862. Many of the men of the 11th Minnesota had also previously served in both frontier militias and frontline units.

Recruitment in Goodhue and Dodge Counties was successful and the Regiment was officially mustered for one year at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 1 September 1864. The regiment moved on to Nashville via Chicago and St. Louis. Once they arrived in Nashville on 20 September 1864, Company D was forced to camp exposed for two weeks without any tents and according to 1st Sergeant Harvey Webb, “Heavy rains prevailed. [the company] was much exposed..” They finally drew tents from stores on 8 October 1864 and subsequently attached to guard Louisville & Nashville railroad at Sandersville. The remainder of their tour of duty was spent guarding the railroad and garrison duty. The company did not participate in any significant engagements or battles and was mustered out at Gallatin, Tennessee 26 June 1865 and discharged at Fort Snelling, Minnesota 12 July 1865.

Images - Sergeants Name - Description

Reverend Harvey Webb First Sergeant Rev. Harvey Webb: Webb, age 33, was mustered 22 August 1864, and appointed to rank 6 September 1864. Although already an acting pastor of a Methodist congregation in Minnesota, Harvey joined with his brother, in Company D, to do his duty and help fulfill the recruitment obligations of his district. He also was to receive a large bounty of $200.00, which likely went to help pay debts, or maybe just to supplement the meager income of an itinerant Methodist clergyman.

Segeant Thomas Bradway Second Sergeant Thomas Bradway; ; mustered 22 August 1864, age 34

Sergeant James B. Smith Third Sergeant James B. Smith

Fourth Sergeant Louis Humphrey Fifth Sergeant Louis L. Humphrey; mustered 21 August 1864, age 29

Sergeant Henry Drought Sergeant Henry Drought, muster 24 August 1864, age 32

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Private George Lautz Private George Lautz (Lantz) : Lautz, age 27, enlisted 28 August 1862 into the Roscoe Militia Company of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers at Roscoe, Goodhue County, Minnesota in response to impending and ongoing attacks on settlers by Native American Sioux, and was mustered out 1 October 1862. He married Eliza M. (Webb) Van Syckle, 9 October 1863, and subsequently persuaded, by his brother-in-law Captain Loren Webb, to enlist in Company D, 11th Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers. He enlisted, and mustered in, 22 August 1865 and mustered out 26 July 1865 at Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Compiled by Jonathan Webb Deiss. Back to Webbs in the Military

Images - Sergeants	Name - Description
	First Sergeant Rev. Harvey Webb: Webb, age 33, was mustered 22 August 1864, and appointed to rank 6 September 1864. Although already an acting pastor of a Methodist congregation in Minnesota, Harvey joined with his brother, in Company D, to do his duty and help fulfill the recruitment obligations of his district. He also was to receive a large bounty of $200.00, which likely went to help pay debts, or maybe just to supplement the meager income of an itinerant Methodist clergyman.
	Second Sergeant Thomas Bradway; ; mustered 22 August 1864, age 34
	Third Sergeant James B. Smith
	Fifth Sergeant Louis L. Humphrey; mustered 21 August 1864, age 29
	Sergeant Henry Drought, muster 24 August 1864, age 32
Images - Privates	Name - Description
	Private George Lautz (Lantz) : Lautz, age 27, enlisted 28 August 1862 into the Roscoe Militia Company of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers at Roscoe, Goodhue County, Minnesota in response to impending and ongoing attacks on settlers by Native American Sioux, and was mustered out 1 October 1862. He married Eliza M. (Webb) Van Syckle, 9 October 1863, and subsequently persuaded, by his brother-in-law Captain Loren Webb, to enlist in Company D, 11th Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers. He enlisted, and mustered in, 22 August 1865 and mustered out 26 July 1865 at Saint Paul, Minnesota.