This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: English Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4367 Message Board Post: In the Government Documents reading room at the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, one finds a multi-volumed set of books entitled SUPPLEMENT To the OFFICIAL RECORDS Of The UNION and CONFEDERATE ARMIES....The spine of each volume shows that volume number, while the index refers to a "Serial Number" which is on the inside of each volume, on the title page --SO -- be sure to note this difference if you consult this supplement. I found the following information about the service of Major William Ridgeway English during his service in the Civil War: 1. Serial Number 31, in Volume 19, page 542: "November 1, 1861: A detachment of ten commanding officers and 200 enlisted men, twenty men of each company, left the regiment under the command of Major William R. English, Fourth Iowa Volunteers, for the purpose of encounter and chastise a band of marauders and Rebels said to be commanded by a certain Thomas R. Freeman in Texas County, Missouri.The expedition marched to the county seat of said county without encountering the enemy, as he had got notice of the apporoach of Federal troops, he had hurriedly departed. The detachment seized the enemy's cattle, horses, etc., sold afterwards at public auction at Rolla, Missouri. No enemy being visible and all reports showing that he had retreated towards Arkansas, the detachment returned." November 9, 1861.-- The detachment rejoined the regiment. 2. Same reference, but page 568; November 1, 1861: "Twenty men of the company "F" under Lieutenant Robert Stitt, with others of the regiment, commanded by Major English, were ordered into Texas County, Missouri.