Many young men from the Carson City community have, over the years as the occasion required, served their country, and the cause of frreedom, well.
When President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for volunteers in the War Between the States, commonly known as the American Civil War, many from this area responded.
Some paid with their lives, either in battle or in the plagues that hit the prisoners of war camps. To spur enlisments, "bounties" of from $100 to $400 were paid to volunteers.
Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abbott, and their cousin, a Hunt boy, died in the camps and the first to die in battle from Carson City was Julius T. Barrett. It was for Barrett that the Grand Army of the Republic Post, later organized here, was named.
In 1864 the call for Bloomer township was 17 men, and in 1865, 11 more. M.J. Miner was authorized to recruit them. Wives were left behind to care for the families and crops. Often many months passed with no word from the soldier husbands because of disrupted communications.
In 1886 th eWomen's Relief Corps was organized as an auxiliary to the GAR, to assist the widows and orphans of veterans.
After some 50 years of comparative peace and progress, World War I broke on the horizon, and again, many responded, with some being among the first contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces to reach France and join the battle against the German "Huns."
Among those serving both overseas and at home, were: William, Ernest and Arthur Hill, Stanley and Walter Horn, Floyd Warner, Jesse Harlow, William Washer, George Walt, Elmer Siple, Victor Geller, Don Smith, Hubert Bond, Forrest Burchfield, Leonard Jarstfer, John Loucks, Kenneth Smith, Floyd Goodell, Lawrence Smith, Charles Churchill, Chris Nickert, Lewis Russell, Floyd Burt, Clarence Mayhew, Peter Peiffer, Cassius Meyers, Orin Peckham and Douglas McCloskey.
In September 1919,the first American Legion Post was organized.
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McCloskey, who had been numbered among the war dead.
Officers of the Post were: Commander, Elmer Siple; Vice Commander, Stanley Horn; Adjutant, Victor Geller; Finance Officer, Don Smith; Historian, Hubert Bond; Chaplain, Forrest Burchfield.
Sometime between 1921 and 1923, the Post joined the Walter T. Roach Post at Hubbardston.
In October 1943, the prest Carson City Post 380 was organized and the following officers elected: Commander, Frank E. Tabor, Vice Commander, Albert J. Hartman; Adjutant, Lawson M. Knowles; Finance Officer, Lloyd O. Whipple; Historian, Floyd L. Warner; Service Officer, Lawson M. Knowles; and news correspondent, Lawrence Smith, who, for many years was employed as a printer on the Gazette staff.
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are Commander, Elmo Badder; Vice Commanders, Max Jones and J. Carl Frye; Adjutant, Paul Geller; Chaplain, Charles Stokes; Historian, Robert J. Hummel; Service Officer, Elmo Badder; Sergeant at Arms, Paul Grimwood.
The Auxiliary unit was formed in June 1946, with Mrs. Carl Frye as the first president. Present officers are: President, Jean Avey; Vice Presidents, Karoline McCauig and Barbara Spiece; secretary-treasurer, Aradis Badder; Chaplain, Ann McKenna; Sergeant at Arms, Helen Goodell; Historian, Jeanne Wineland.
With the Japanese attack the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, with Europe again crushed by Hitler's Germany, a new contingent joined the conflict in World War II.
This time the first casualty was Roland Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs.
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township, who lost his life on the beaches of Normandy, France.
Some of the others from this ara who lost their lives in this conflict were: D.E. Armbrustmacher, WilliamOyler, Robert Chaney, F.R. Petersen, Jack Cooper, Dale Shillinger, Clifford Corey, Howard Berry, Gaylord Ordiway, and later, LeRoy Plank in the army of occupation in Germany.
In the still unresolved Korean war, in which American troops are participating as a "police action," Pfc. Harold Shaull, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shaull, was killed in taegu October 3, 1951, and Pvt. Lewis Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Foster, in January 1961.
Many Carson City community young men are, at present, serving with the Unite States armed forces in Korea and the latest
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