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This stone marker is placed near Malta town hall, next to the Jonathan Bailey/Jeremiah Rusk stone marker

Orion Perseus Howe was a Union drummer boy in Company C, of the 55th Illinois Infantry. On 19th May 1863 at the battle of Vicksburg he was present on the field and was ordered by Colonel Malmborg to go to General Sherman and request the supply of…