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Jacob Harrison Hickle

Birth	:	8 Oct 1841 Ross County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	30 Nov 1927 Butler County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Lowell Cemetery, Clarksville, Butler County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.7578011, -92.6346970
Description	:	Jacob was born on October 8, 1841 in Ross County, Ohio John Hickle and Hester Van Gundy. On August 16 1862 he mustered into service with the 32nd Iowa Infantry serving in Company E. Exerpt from History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/Volume 2 by Benjamin F. Gue: This regiment was raised in the late summer and early fall of 1862. Company A was recruited in the counties of Hamilton, Wright, Hardin and Kossuth, B in Cerro Gordo, Winnebago and Hancock, C in Black Hawk, D in Boone, E in Butler and... Read More	Jacob was born on October 8, 1841 in Ross County, Ohio John Hickle and Hester Van Gundy. On August 16 1862 he mustered into service with the 32nd Iowa Infantry serving in Company E. Exerpt from History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/Volume 2 by Benjamin F. Gue: This regiment was raised in the late summer and early fall of 1862. Company A was recruited in the counties of Hamilton, Wright, Hardin and Kossuth, B in Cerro Gordo, Winnebago and Hancock, C in Black Hawk, D in Boone, E in Butler and Black Hawk, F in Hardin and Grundy, G in Butler and Floyd, H in Franklin and Butler, I in Webster and Humboldt, K in Marshall and Story. The regiment went into camp at Dubuque and was organized with John Scott of Story County, colonel; E. H. Mix of Butler, lieutenant-colonel; G. A. Eberhart of Black Hawk, major; and Charles Aldrich of Hamilton, adjutant. According to this same book, Jacob would go on to see action in the Battle Of Pleasant Hill: Fifteen miles from the field of carnage the army halted; General A. J. Smith had come up with his fresh troops and General Banks decided to make a stand. A line was formed consisting of the First Brigade of the 19th Corps on the right; Second Brigade in the center, supported by Shaw's Brigade in which was the Thirty-second Iowa;Third Brigade on the left. There was skirmishing during the morning but the heavy fighting did not begin until near four o'clock when a tremendous cannonade opened upon our lines, followed soon after by a cavalry charge. Senator W. V. Allen of Nebraska, then a private in Company G, gives the following graphic account of what followed: "The cloud of smoke from our guns hung for a moment in the breeze, then rose, revealing to us the sickening sight of riders and horses lying in a promiscuous heap of dead and dying. Their warm life-blood was forming little pools, which uniting, ran away in streams, while the pitiful neighing of dying horses, and the sorrowful cries and appeals of the dying soldiers for help and water was a sight to make the soul sick. While we were contemplating this horrible picture there debouched from the opposite woods three strong lines of infantry, the division of Churchill, Parsons and Majors, with wings spread out like a great fan. Their bayonets were fixed ready for use and they carried their guns at right shoulder shift. It was our time to turn pale. There were two of them to one of us, three strong lines to our single line. They broke forth in the ‘Rebel yell,' which was simply a cheer from fine voiced men, a high piercing noise like the call of a woman made at long distance. It differed from the cheer of our men, which was heavier, heartier and more uniform. They brushed aside our skirmishers and dropped their guns to the position of a charge. They were to fall upon and crush in our center by the fury of their assault and the machine strength of numbers, while other portions of their army were to envelope, overlap and crush our flanks, and thus rout if not capture our entire army. Their success the previous day had made this, to their minds, not an impossible feat. Banks, always fruitful in blunders, had sent back to Grand Ecore a large part of the Thirteenth Corps and all our cavalry except one brigade, which being roughly handled early in the fight was unfit for offensive service when needed; so that when the enemy struck us in full force with his assaulting columns, we were weakened fully by this reduction of our numbers. We were ordered to shield ourselves as best we could from the enemy's fire, and reserve our own, until he approached within a few rods of us. The chivalrous Shaw was at his best. His usually dull eye kindled with an unnatural fire, and his unusually homely countenance grew almost beautiful in contemplation of the death struggle that was at hand. He rode along the line giving his orders as coolly as if on dress parade. ‘Aim low, boys; it is better to wound than to kill, for it will take two good men to carry a wounded man from the field,' he said. Above the din of the gathering storm, again rang out the voice of Shaw as the Rebels approached us. ‘Fix bayonets,' he said, and in an instant every man's bayonet was ready for use. The Rebels were upon us. The noise of 1,600 Springfield rifles rang out in unison as 1,600 minie balls sped into the enemy's ranks to do their deadly work. He was strong and stopped, but rallied and again renewed the assault with additional fury. Another volley thrown full and fair into his ranks caused the enemy to reel and stagger like a drunken man, but he rallied to renew the attack. The assault was repeated and another made, this time along parts of the line the bayonet was used; but each assault was repulsed with great loss of life and limb on both sides. So the fighting went on, on other parts of the field. Our right wing was crushed in and driven back to the reserves, and this made it necessary to retire Shaw's Brigade a distance to keep a connected line. The order was given, and the Twenty-fourth Missouri, Fourteenth and Twenty-seventh Iowa drew back, but Adjutant Charlie Huntley, brave as a lion and mild as a woman, while bringing the order to the Thirty-second was killed, and the order never reached the regiment. Having previously orders to hold the position at all hazards there was but one thing for Colonel Scott to do, and that was to hold his position unless wrenched from him by the enemy. The regiment at our left had been withdrawn, leaving both flanks of ours exposed. For more than an hour this regiment alone was fighting ten times its number. Everywhere in front, on the flanks and in the rear the contest raged with great fury and loss of life. Nowhere in ancient or modern warfare can be found an instance of more heroism than was here exhibited. Up to this time the enemy had been the assailant, but now that he was weakened, the time came for us to take the offensive. General Smith had made all preparations to receive the advancing foe; and as the human tide came rolling up the hill, almost to the muzzle of his guns, a sheet of flame flashed along his lines and swept the front like the besom of destruction. Hundreds fell dead and dying before that awful fire. Scarcely had the seething lead left the guns when the word ‘charge' was given and 7,000 men precipitated themselves upon the shattered ranks of the enemy. Emory's division was pushed forward and joined the Sixteenth Corps, driving the Rebels rapidly down the hill to the woods, there they broke and fled in confusion. The victory was won, and our troops followed the enemy until night put an end to the pursuit." Then was repeated the stupid blunder perpetrated by McClellan after the Battle of Malvern Hill. A sweeping victory had been won by his subordinate officers and superb soldiers and the only demoralized man in the army was the commander-in-chief, who ordered a retreat. So it was with Banks at Pleasant Hill, after his army by valor had redeemed the disastrous rout and slaughter of the day before by a hard won victory, he ordered a retreat, abandoning his wounded officers and men and leaving the dead unburied. The Confederate army fled in one direction while Banks hurried his army away in the opposite direction. When General Dick Taylor learned the next day of Banks' flight he faced his beaten army about, returned to the battle-field, took our wounded men prisoners and claimed a victory. But what of the heroic Thirty-second on that fateful day? When its supporting regiments were withdrawn and no order came to Scott to retire, there was but one thing to do—fight to the end. Lieutenant-Colonel Mix and Captain A. B. Miller holding the right of the regiment, fell mortally wounded and three companies gave way before over-whelming numbers. The lines now faced in three directions while a destructive fire was rapidly thinning the ranks. Captains Peebles and Ackerman, Lieutenants Devine and Howard had fallen dangerously wounded. The sun had gone down and the enemy had passed on to the rear. Colonel Scott was now able to move his regiment to the left, where it joined our most advanced troops. The loss of the regiment was two hundred ten men out of four hundred twenty, or one-half of the entire number that had answered to the roll call in the morning. It was a larger per cent. than that suffered by the famous "Light Brigade" in its charge at Balaklava. General Banks in his official report of the battle did not even mention Shaw's Brigade, which by its heroic fighting and fearful sacrifice, saved the army from utter rout. Neither did he mention an Iowa regiment. But he did a few months later secure the dismissal from the service of the gallant and fearless Colonel Shaw for daring to tell the truth about some of the drunken and cowardly officers high in command at Pleasant Hill. But impartial history rights many wrongs.

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Jacob Harrison Hickle's memorial is located at: Lowell Cemetery, Clarksville, Butler County, USA.
When did Jacob Harrison Hickle death?
Jacob Harrison Hickle death on 30 Nov 1927 in Butler County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 42.7578011
Longitude: -92.6346970

Family Members:

Parent

John Hickle

(1812 - 1894)

Hester Ann Van Grundy Hickle

(1820 - 1910)

Spouse

Elizabeth McDonald Hickle

(1848 - 1935)

Siblings

William H Hickle

(1842 - 1933)

Pvt Alfred John Hickle

(1846 - 1933)

David V Hickle

(1848 - 1907)

James Warren Hickle

(1854 - 1940)

Eliza Ann Hickle

(1857 - 1939)

Charles Clifton Hickle

(1859 - 1946)

Children

John Hickle

(1868 - 1948)

Winifred H Hickle Thompson

(1872 - 1955)

Jessie Hickle

(1879 - 1879)

Grace Laverne Hickle

(1880 - 1892)

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Coordinate: 42.7578011, -92.6346970

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Coordinate: 42.7158012, -92.4721985

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Coordinate: 42.7275009, -92.4563980

18. Peace United Church of Christ Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7192630, -92.4543880

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