Second Lieutenant Samuel L. Wilson


Enlisted April 22, 1861 (age 24)
Company B, 16th Ohio Infantry
Mustered in April 23, 1861
Mustered out August 18, 1861 - with Company B for 3 months

McPherson Post 33 - joined December 28, 1880
Transferred J.C. Brown Post 395 Cumberland, Iowa August 8, 1885
Transferred April 3, 1886 (no location listed)


Taken from the History of Carroll County 1912 book.
October 5, 1881 S. L. Wilson of Manning is buying the material for a paper in the town for which he has chosen the name of The Monitor.

The first newspaper at Manning was started shortly after the town was founded, in November, 1881, by S.L. Wilson. After running the Monitor for nearly two years he relinquished ownership in favor of Seth Smith, one of the pioneer business men of the town.


The first reference/information to S.L. Wilson as being a Civil War Veteran and member of the Manning McPherson Post GAR is in an obituary of the Manning Monitor September 14, 1882
He was the adjutant who signed the resolution for Benjamin H. Lathrop's obituary and military service.
Below is the last part of Benjamin's obituary which lists S.L. Wilson.


McPherson Post, at a special meeting held September 9, 1882, passed the following resolutions of respect:
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in his inscrutable providence to remove from our midst by death, our comrade and brother Benjamin H. Lathrop, therefore, be it Resolved:
1st, That in the death of our Comrade we recognize the loss of a good and faithful soldier of the Republic, a warm personal friend and a tried and true patriot.
2d, That society has lost a good and loyal citizen, his family a loving husband and a kind father.
3d, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved wife and children of our deceased comrade, and while we commend her and them to our God who hath promised to be a husband to the widow and a father to the fatherless, we also pledge them the benefits of our order.
4th, That those resolutions be published in the Manning Monitor and a copy of the same be transmitted to the family of the deceased.
Selden E. Whitcher, Post Commander. S.L. Wilson, Adjutant.