William H. Kinsman
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William H. Kinsman, of the Fourth Iowa, was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third Iowa, on the 2nd of August, 1862, and Colonel, September 09, 1862, and was at the head of that regiment until killed in battle in 1863. The name of Col. Kinsman is the special property of Council Bluffs. His remains rest in an unknown grave in Mississippi, where he fell at Black River Bridge. He came to the county as a school teacher, and obtained employment in Hazel Dell. Few knew his origin, but he rapidly made friends, and took part in correspondence in the Nonpareil, attracting attention by the quaintness and humor of some of his paragraphs. Among the first to offer his services to the country, and doomed to lose his life on the battle-field, his gallant career has invested his memory with a halo that time will never dispel. Some of his gallant comrades of the Twenty-third Iowa still survive, among them Ernest Fischer, of this city, who, as a mere boy, as a fifer, went into Company E, and was near his gallant Colonel when struck by the fatal bullet, and assisted in placing his body at rest in the lonely southern grave where the bright river will ever and ever murmur his requiem.