This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#144482) Re: ANSON RUDSDELL <http://iagenweb.org/boards/clayton/queries/index.cgi?rev=144482> AUTHOR: Sharyl Ferrall DATE: 2/7/2007 at 21:29:48 Reply To: (#144446) ANSON RUDSDELL Author: PAT CALHOUN Date: 2/7/2007 at 12:57:02 Surnames: RUDSDELL,HATFIELD Pat, >From a note about the Ft. Atkinson Records collection held by the University of Iowa Libraries (link below): 1846 - War with Mexico necessitated the withdrawal of U.S. Army troops from Fort Atkinson, and consequent replacement with Iowa Volunteer units. James M. Morgan of Burlington and John Parker of Dubuque were commissioned captains by Governor James Clarke, and assumed command of the companies known as Captain Morgan's Independent Company of Iowa Volunteers, and Captain Parker's Iowa Dragoon Volunteers. --- also, from Chapter 5 of the 'Past & Present of Allamakee County, 1913' is a blurb about another man receiving land in return for service: "...Thos. B. Twiford had been a lieutenant in Captain Parkers Company, Iowa Volunteers, in the Mexican War, and as such received a warrant for forty acres of government land ..." http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaallama/history2/chap5.htm There is quite a lot of information about the Mexican War on the internet, should you want to research it in depth. Sharyl Ferrall