Iowa and the Rebellion. A history of the troops furnished by the State of Iowa to the Volunteer Armies of the Union ... Third edition

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IOWA AND THE BEBELLION A HISTORY OF THE TROOPS FURNISHED BY THE STATE OF IOWA TO THE VOLUNTEER ARMIES OF THE UNION, WHICH CONQUERED THE GREAT SOUTHERN REBELLION OF 1861-5. BY LUBTON DUNHAM INGEKSOLL. THIRD EDITION. PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. DUBUQUE: B. M. HARQER. IOWA CITY : BEACH & ALLIN. BURLINGTON: J. L. CORSE. 1867. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by LURTON DUNHAM INGERSOLly. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District 01 iowa. Wbstoott & Thomson, Stereotypers, PHILADELPHIA. IN MEMORY OF Joseph Henry Ingersoll MY ONLY BEOTHER A. PRIVATE SOLDIER OF THE UNION ARM? SERVING WITH THE ELEVENTH OHIO BATTERY AND SLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF IUKA. L. D. L PREFATORY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The following work was first entered upon a little more than four years ago.

The fine achievement of the Second Iowa Volunteers, at Fort Donelson, following up the admirable conduct of the Iowa First at Wilson's Creek, of the Third at Blue Mills Landing, and of the Seventh at Belmont, impelled me to think that the State could scarcely help making a fine record in the war of the Union. I at once began to direct my studies to military works, and to collect materials for the volume now offered to the public, then, of course, but rudely blocked out in my mind. First of all am I indebted to the reports of the Adjutant-General of the State, which are universally acknowledged to be more full and complete than those of any State in the Union, Maine alone excepted. Meritorious works of a general nature having much bearing upon the events here treated of are rare. But I acknowledge obligations to the first volume of Horace Greeley's History of the Rebellion, whioh gives promise of being the most candid, philosophical, and entertaining historical essay which " these latter years" have produced; to the Rebellion Record; to Colonel S. M. Bowman and Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Irwin's, " Sherman and his Campaigns;" to the United States Service Magazine, a most valuable publication ; to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, but not to the articles by Mr. John S. C. Abbott, which are for the most part the sketches of a too lively imagination ; to the Army and Navy Journal (which, published in volumes, may be well enough classed among works of a general nature) that has contained more downright reliable information upon the operations of our armies than can at this time be found elsewhere.

Jomini, perhaps with biographical accuracy, makes Napoleon speak contemptuously of the press. He would not have done it, had he lived in this day and generation. In the columns of the daily journals of our great cities have appeared finer accounts of the battles and campaigns of the late war, than can be found of the battles and campaigns of old in all the pages of classical literature. I may have a bias of profes sional feeling, but I confess the deepest obligations to the leaders and letters of the New York Tribune, Times, and Post; Forney's Philadelphia Press; the Gazette and Commercial, of Cincinnati; the Tribune and Journal, of Chicago; the Democrat, of St. Louis; the Republican, Chronicle, and Intelligencer, of Washington. But I am still more indebted to the press of Iowa.

Chapter I. First Iowa Volunteer Infantry

PAGE Introduction — The Attack of Traitors on Fort Sumter— The Nation Aroused— The Response of Iowa to the President's Call for Seventy-five Thousand Men— The Organization of the First Regiment — Rendezvous at Keokuk — Encamp there — Ordered to Report to General Lyon — March to Boonville — To Southwestern Missouri— Affair of Dug Springs— McCullough's Springs— General Nathaniel Lyon— Battle of Wilson's Creek— Retreat to Rolla — Mustered out 17

Chapter II. Second Infantry

Organization at Keokuk— Samuel R. Curtis, James M. Tuttle, and M. M. Crocker, the first Field Officers — Move to Western Missouri— Important Services there — At Bird's Point — Guard of McDowell College Prison — "Dead Rabbits"— The Battle of Fort Donelson — The Iowa Second the Bravest of the Brave — Battle of Shiloh — Siege of Corinth — Quiet — March to Iuka — Battle of Corinth — Campaigning in Tennessee — Winter Quarters at Pulaski — ReenliBtment — The Campaign of Atlanta — The Third Infantry Consolidated with the Second — The March to Savannah — Through the Carolinas — Home 33

Chapter III. Third Infantry

Organization and Rendezvous at Keokuk — Ordered to Missouri — Active Operations — Colonel Williams— March from Mason City to Kirksville— Warfare by Proclamation — Various Movements — Battle of Blue Utills Landing — Proceed to Leavenworth, Kansas — Quarrel between General Sturgis and "Jim Lane" — Go to Quincy, Illinois — Again in Missouri— In Tennessee — Battle of Shiloh — At the Siege of Corinth — Memphis— Battle of Matamora — Movements in rear of Vicksburg— Tho Vicksburg Campaign in 1863— General Sherman's March on Jackson — Desperate Charge of Colonel Pugh's Brigade — General Lauman Relieved— Meridian Expedition— Campaign in East Tennessee and Georgia — The Regiment Consolidated with the Second CONTENTS.

Chapter IV. Fourth Infantry

PAOl Organization and Rendezvous of the Regiment at Council Bluffs— March before Muster— Drill at St. Louis— The Pea Ridge Campaign— The Battle— March through Arkansas— Long stay near Helena— The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou— Sherman and McClernand— Arkansas Post — General Grant's Successful Campaign against Vicksburg — The Second Capture of Jackson— In Camp— March to the Relief of Chattanooga— The Battles there — Battle of Ringgold— The March to " The Heart of the Confederacy"— To Savannah— Through the Carolinas — Home 75

Chapter V. Fifth Infantry

Organization — Mustered into the Service at Burlington — March in Pursuit of " Mart. Green" — Voyage to St. Louis — Up the Missouri to Jefferson City— Fremont's March to Springfield — A Winter in Missouri — General Pope's Campaign against New Madrid, Island No. Ten, and Fort Pillow— The Siege of Corinth under Halleck — Death of Colonel Worthington— Marchings and Countermarchings — The Battle of Iuka — Battle of Corinth — Pursuit of the Enemy — March into the Interior of Mississippi — Return — The Vicksburg Campaign — On Garrison Duty in the City — Move to Helena — March to Chattanooga, Tennessee — Combat near Tunnel Hill — Barefooted Men living on Parched Corn — The Veterans of the Regiment Transferred to the Fifth Iowa Cavalry 94

Chapter VI. Sixth Infantry

Organization and Rendezvous at Burlington— Stop at Keokuk— Reenforce Colonel Moore at Athens, Missouri — Fremont's Campaign to Springfield — Guard Duty — Proceed to the Front — Battle of Shiloh — General Grant's Unsuccessful Campaign in Mississippi — Garrison Duty at Memphis — The Campaign against Vicksburg — The Siege of Jackson — March to Chattanooga, Tennessee — Battle of Missionary Ridge — Relies of Knoxville — Reenlist and Return to Iowa— Back again— General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign — March to Savannah — Through the Carolinas — Homeward Bound 112

Chapter VII. Seventh Infantry

Organization at Burlington— Proceed to St. Louis— Pilot Knob, Missouri— Cairo, Illinois— Encampment near Columbus, Kentucky— Bird's Point— The Battle of Belmont— Ordered to Benton Barracks— Frozen up in the Mississippi River— Off for the Front— Fort Henry— Fort Donelson— Shiloh— Siege of Corinth— Pursuit of the Enemy— A Quiet Summer— Battle of Corinth— A Year of Comparative Quiet—" Shebangs"— The Atlanta Campaign— Passage of the Oostanaula River— The March to Savannah— To Washington City — Mustered out 12a

Chapter VIII. Ninth Infantry

The Regiment Recruited by Hon. William Vandever-Rendezvous at Dubuque— Departure for St. Louis— Guarding Railway— Army of the Southwest— March to Arkansas— The Battle CONTENTS. 9 PASS Of Pea Ridge— March across Arkansas to Helena — Quiet — Active Campaigning again— Chickasaw Bayou — Arkansas Post— Attached to the First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps The Campaign of Vicksburg— Of Jackson— March to Chattanooga, Tennessee— Battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Ringgold — Home on Veteran Furlough — The Atlanta Campaign— March to Savannah— Through the Carolinas— To Washington City- Move to Louisville, Kentucky — Home 146

Chapter IX. Tenth Infantry

Organization at Iowa City — Move to St. Louis — To Cape Girardeau — Winter Quarters at Bird's Point — Skirmish near Charleston, Missouri — Campaign of New Madrid — Of Island No. Ten— Move to Vicinity of Fort Pillow— Siege of Corinth— Battle of Iuka— Battle of Corinth — Campaign in Mississippi — Yazoo Pass Expedition — Vicksburg Campaign — Battle of Champion Hills— Siege— The Jackson Campaign— March to Tennessee— Battle of Missionary Ridge — Home on Veteran Furlough — Return to the Front — March on Savannah — Through the Carolinas — Move to Arkansas — Home 166

Chapter X. Twelfth Infantry

Rendezvous at Dubuque — Sickness at Benton Barracks — Fort Henry — Fort Donelson — Shiloh — The Regiment Captured — Brief Account of its History in Captivity — Exchanged — Reorganization — Move to Rolla, Missouri — Join the Army under Grant Operating against Vicksburg — Then, the Army of Observation, under Sherman — Siege of Jackson — In Camp near Vicksburg — Veteran Furlough — Return to the Theatre of War — Active Operations — Battle near Tupelo, Mississippi — Two Companies of the Regiment Defeat Four Hundred rebels at mouth of White River, Arkansas — Regiment Posted at Holly Springs — Severe March through Arkansas — Campaign in Missouri — Move to Nashville — Siege and Battle — The Mobile Campaign under Canby — Subsequent History 181

Chapter XI. Fourteenth Infantry

Organization in the Fall of 1861— Detachment sent on Frontier Service— Winter Quarters — Move to the Theatre of War— Fort Henry— Battle of Fort Donelson— Battle of Shiloh— The Regiment Captured — Reorganization — A Long Period of Quiet, at Columbus, Kentucky — Down the Mississippi — The Meridian Raid— Sent to the Department of the Gulf— The Red River Expedition— Capture of Fort De Russey— Battle of Pleasant Hill — Retreat- Battle of Bayou De Glaize— Affair of Lake Chicot— Campaigning East of the Mississippi- Battle of Tupelo— Of Old Town— The Oxford Raid— Move to Missouri— Surrounded at Pilot Knot) — Remarkable Retreat on Rolla— Pursuit of Price— Return to Iowa for Discharge- Mustered out^-The "Residuary Battalion"— Colonel William T. Shaw 195

Chapter XII. Eleventh Infantry

Organized at Camp McClellan— " Starvation" Era I— The Army Blue— Benton Barracks— Jefferson City— First Campaigning— " Providence Deserted"— A Winter of Joy and Sadness- Move to the Front— Battle of Shiloh— Colonel M. M. Crocker— Siege of Corinth— Active Operations— Battle of Iuka— Battle of Corinth— Mississippi Central Campaign— Lake CONTENTS. PAOI Providence— Campaign or Vicksburg-Expedition to Monroe, Louisiana-Quiet at Vicka burg-The Meridian Raid-Home on Veteran Furlough-The Atlanta Campaign-Nicka jack Creek— Subsequent History of the Regiment-Personalities— Disbanded 211

Chapter XIII. Thirteenth Infantry

Marcellus M. Crocker, the First Colonel of the Regiment-Rendezvous at Davenport— Armed at St. Louis— Winter Quarters at Jefferson City— Move to Pittsburg Landing— Drill— Battle of Shiloh-Siege of Corinth-Movements in the Field-Battle of Corinth-Campaign in Mississippi— Lake Providence— A Small Canal and a Great Inundation— Operations of the Command during Siege of Vicksburg—" Crocker's Greyhounds"— Winter at Vicksburg— The Meridian Raid—" Thirty Days in Iowa"— Again at the Front— The Atlanta Campaign— Kenesaw Mountain— Nickajack Creek— Battle of Atlanta, July 21st, 1864— The Battle the next Day— Last Flanking Movement of the Campaign— Pursuit of Hood- March to the Sea— To Washington City— Mustered out at Louisville— Last Camp, at 229 Davenport

Chapter XIV. Fifteenth Infantry

Organization at Keokuk— Move to the Front— Battle of Shiloh— The Siege of Corinth— Quiet— A Midsummer's Campaign— Battle of Iuka— Battle of Corinth— The Central Mississippi Campaign— Winter at " Memphis and Below"— The Campaigns of Vicksburg and of Jackson—A March in Hot Weather— Repose— The March to and from Meridian — Home on Veteran Furlough— Return to the Theatre of War— Kenesaw Mountain — Nickajack Creek— Tlie Battle of Atlanta, July 22d— The Siege— The Last of the Flanking Movements — Pursuit of Hood— The Campaign of Savannah—" Slashing through the Carolinas" — At the National Capital — Mustered out 246

Chapter XV. Sixteenth Infantry

Organization — Immediately move to the Theatre of War — Battle of Shiloh — Reconnoissance to Purdy — Form Part of the Iowa Brigade — Siege of Corinth — Active Operations around Bolivar, Tennessee — Battle of Iuka — Pursuit of Price — Battle of Corinth — Pursuit of the Rebels — The Central Mississippi Campaign — Return to Tennessee — Move to Louisiana — The Campaign of Vicksburg — The Louisiana Expedition — Quiet — The Meridian Raid — Veteran Furlough — Rejoin the Army — The Atlanta Campaign — Battle of Kenesaw Mountain — Battle of Atlanta, July 21st — July 22d — The Regiment Captured — Its Subsequent History... 269

Chapter XVI. Seventeenth Infantry

Organization of the Regiment — Haste to Reach the Front — Goes by Water to Hamburg, Tennessee— Siege of Corinth— Battle of Iuka— Battle of Corinth — General Rosecrans' Congratulatory Order — A Hard Working Winter — Yazoo Pass Expedition — The Vicksburg Campaign— Battle of Jackson— Champion's Hill— Combat at Fort Hill— Battle of Chattanooga—Surrender at Tilton, Georgia— Remarkable Defence of Resaca by Colonel Wever — Roster CONTENTS. 11

Chapter XVII. Eighteenth Infantry

PAOE Organization at Clinton — Ordered to Missouri — Defence of Springfield — Active Campaigning in Arkansas— March to Fort Smith — On Garrison Duty 30T

Chapter XVIII. Nineteenth Infantry

Organized during the Summer of 1862 — Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas — Battle of Prairie Grove — Return to Missouri— Active Operations in that State— Join the Army under Grant Beleaguering Vicksburg— Active Operations after the Capitulation— Long Period of Quiet at Brownsville — Evacuate that Place and Return to New Orleans — Meeting of the Regiment with its Prisoners Captured the Year Before— Move to Florida— To Mississippi — The Campaign of Mobile under Canby— Homeward Bound 319

Chapter XIX. Twentieth Infantry

Enrolled in the Counties of Scott and Linn — Move to Benton Barracks — March into Arkansas — The Battle of Prairie Grove — Encampment on the Field — Return to Missouri — Active Operations there — Embark for Vicksburg — Take Position in the Line of Investments — Capture of Yazoo City — Join the Army of the Gulf— Combat of Sterling Farm — Embark for Texas — The Occupation of Brownsville — Adventures on the " High Seas" — Evacuation of Brownsville — Capture of Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan — Again in Louisiana — In Arkansas — The Mobile Campaign — Mustered out — Home Again 340

Chapter XX. First Cavalry

Fitz Henry Warren, its First Colonel — Organization — Move to St. Louis — Operations in Missouri — Battle of Prairie Grove — Capture of Van Buren, Arkansas — On Duty in Missouri — Move to Pilot Knob — March into Arkansas — Capture of Little Rock — " Winter Quarters" — The Arkansas Campaign — Move to Texas— General Custer, Hero of the Lash 1... 368

Chapter XXI. Second Cavalry

Rendezvous at Davenport — Move to St. Louis — Bird's Point — New Madrid — Island No. Ten — Siege of Corinth — Battle of Farmington — Raids — Battle of Iuka — Battle of Corinth — Raids and Combats — The Grierson Raid — Battle of Moscow — Operations during tho Winter of 1863-4— Operations during the Summer of 1864— Battle of Tupelo— Old Town Creek— Expedition to Oxford — Move to Reinforce General Thomas — Combats, by Day and Night — Battle of Franklin— Of Nashville— March to Huntsville— " Roll of Honor" 374

Chapter XXII. Third Cavalry

Organization — Move to Missouri — Two Parts of the Regiment Separated from each other — Account of the Detachment under Lieutenant-Colonel Caldwell — History of the Regiment Resumed — Campaign of Pea Ridge — March through Arkansas — Operations about Helena— CONTENTS. PAOE Colonel Bussey takes Command of the Cavalry of the Army Investing Vicksburg— Operations on that Field— Again in Arkansas— The Regiment Reunited— Campaigning in 1864— The Campaign of Missouri— The Wilson Raid— Mustered out S98

Chapter XXIII. Fourth Cavalry

Organization at "Camp Harlan," near Mount Pleasant — Join the Army of the Southwest- March through Arkansas, to Helena — Encamped near Helena about Nine Months — Operations of the Regiment during this Period— The Campaign of Vicksburg— Capture of Jackson— Raids— Reenlistment of the Regiments — The Meridian Raid — Veteran Furlough — Expedition under Sturgis— Expeditions under General A. J. Smith, first to Tupelo, second to the Tallahatchee — The Campaign in Missouri— The Raid under General Wilson — Mustered out — Home 417

Chapter XXIV. Fifth Cavalry

An Account of the Command, Previously to its Organization as an Iowa Regiment; — Becomes the Fifth Iowa Cavalry — Operations in Kentucky, from the Base of Fort Heiman — Engagement at Paris — Affair near Lockridge's Mills — Death of Major Bœrnstein— Active Operations — Garrison Fort Donelson — Move to Murfreesboro — Pursuit of Wheeler — Important Expedition under Major Young — Various Movements — Home on Veteran Furlough — Return to Nashville — The Rousseau Raid — General McCook's Raid — Battle of Jonesboro— Return to Nashville — Operations on Duck River — brilliant Exploit by Major Young — Battle of Nashville — The Wilson Raid — Conclusion 441

Chapter XXV. Twenty-first Infantry

Organization — A Winter in Missouri — Battle of Hartsville — Down the Mississippi — Assigned to the Thirteenth Army Corps — The Battle of Port Gibson — Battle of the Big Black River — The Assault on the Works of Vicksburg — The Siege — The Second Campaign of Jackson — Campaigning in Louisiana — In Texas — Again in Louisiana — In Arkansas — Tennessee — Once more in Louisiana — The Campaign of Mobile — Conclusion 457

Chapter XXVI. Twenty-second Infantry

Organization at Iowa City— Move to St. Louis— To Rolla— Embark at St. Genevieve for the Front— Join the Thirteenth Army Corps— Battle of Port Gibson— The Assault upon the Enemy's Worlds at Viclcsburg—The Siege— The Jackson Campaign— Campaign in Louisiana— In Texas— Voyage to Fortress Monroe— In the Trenches before Petersburg- Move to Washington— To the Shenandoah Valley— Battle of Winchester— Of Fisher's Hill— Of Cedar Creek— Move to Savannah, Georgia— To North Carolina— Conclusion 472

Chapter XXVII. Twenty-third Infantry

Organization at Des Moines— Move to the " Front"— Campaign in Missouri^Toin General Grant's Army— Battle of Port Gibson— Battle of Black River Bridge— Colonel Kinsman Slain-JJattie of Milliken's Bend- Siege of Vicksburg-Campaign in Louisiana- Voyage to Texas— Return— Move up Red River to Reenforce Banks— Campaign in Arkansas—Campaign of Mobile- Again in Texas— Mustered out— Disbanded at Davenport CONTENTS. 13

Chapter XXVIII. Twenty-fourth Infantry

PAGE Called the Temperance Regiments— Rendezvous near Muscatine — Embark for Helena, Arkansas The Campaign against Vicksburg— Battle of Port Gibson— Active Campaigning— Battle of Champion Hills— Siege of Vicksburg— The Red River Expedition— Battle of Sabine Cross Roads— A Voyage by Sea to Fortress Monroe, Virginia— With General Philip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley— Battle of Winchester— Battle of Fisher's Hillr— Cedar Creek— Again in the South— Home 501

Chapter XXIX. Twenty-fifth Infantry

Organization at Mount Pleasant — Move to Helena— General Shenuan'B Unsuccessful Attack on Vicksburg — The Army Moves against Arkansas Post — Its Capture — The Campaigns of Vicksburg and Jackson — General Sherman's March to Chattanooga — The Regiment Engaged on Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and at Ringgold — A Quiet Winter — The Atlanta Campaign — That of Savannah— The March through the Carolinas — The Capture of Columbia — March on Northward — Home „ ... 515

Chapter XXX. Twenty-sixth Infantry

Organized at Clinton — Move to St. Louis — To Helena — The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou — The Capture of Arkansas JPost — The Campaign of Vicksburg— Of Jackson — Affair of Cherokee — Battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Ringgold — Winter in Alabama — Campaign of Atlanta — March to Savannah — Capture of Columbia— March to Washington City — Conclusion 628

Chapter XXXI. Twenty-seventh Infantry

Rendezvous at Dubuque — Campaign in Minnesota — The Campaign under General Grant into Mississippi — New Tear's Day Chase of Forrest— A Winter of Suffering— The Little Rock Campaign— Return to Memphis — The Expedition to Meridian, Mississippi — Red River Expedition—Battle of Yellow Bayou — General A. J. Smith's Campaign against Forrest — Battles of Tupelo and Old Town Creek — March to Oxford — Again at Memphis — Join the Army under General Thomas — Battle of Nashville — General Canby's Campaign against Mobile — Home Again...... — 539

Chapter XXXII. Twenty-eighth Infantry

Organization at Iowa City — First Encampment, near Helena, Arkansas — A Hard March — Expedition to Duvall's Bluff— The Vicksburg Campaign— Battle of Port Gibson — Champion Hills — Jackson, Mississippi— Red River Expedition — An Ocean Voyage — Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign — Battle of Cedar Creek — Voyage to Savannah, Georgia — Disbanded CONTENTS. 14

Chapter XXXIII. Twenty-ninth Infantry

fMt Organized at Council Bluffs-March to St. Joseph, Missouri-St. Louis-Columbus, Kentucky- Helena, Arkansas-The White River Expedition-The Yazoo Pass Expedition-The Battle of Helena-March to Little Bock-Camden Expedition-Tfce Battle of Terre Noitr— Retreat-" City Guards"-Mobile Campaign— Move to Texas-Homeward Bound 566

Chapter XXXIV. Thirtieth Infantry

Organized at Keokuk-Move to Helena-Battle of Chickasaw Bayou— Arkansas Post— The Greenville Expedition— Campaign of Vicksburg-Colonel Abbott Slain-Campaign of Jackson-A Summer's Quiet—The Affair of Cherokee— Colonel Torrence Killed-March to the Relief of the Army of the Cumberland— Battle of Chattanooga— Battle of Ringgold— Winter Quarters— Campaign of Atlanta— March in Pursuit of Hood— The March to the Sea— Through the Carolinas— A Railroad Accident— Disbanded 574

Chapter XXXV. Thirty-first Infantry

Organized at Davenport— Move to Helena— Engaged in the Battles of Chickasaw Bayou and Arkansas Post— Encampment near Young's Point— Greenville Expedition— The Vicksburg Campaign— Siege of Jackson— Affair of Canton— Campaign of Chattanooga— Campaign of Atlanta— Battle of Resaca— Battle of Dallas— Siege of Atlanta— Jonesboro— Lovejoy— March to Savannah — From Savannah to Washington — To Iowa — Conclusion — 587

Chapter XXXVI. Thirty-second Infantry

Organisation — The Regiment Separated in Detachments — History of the Detachment under Major Eberhart — History of Command under Colonel Scott — His Evacuation of New Madrid — His Trial and Acquittal — Campaign in Mississippi — The whole Command at last Together — Colonel Scott's Congratulatory Order — Major-General B. F. Butler — Major-General N. P. Banks — The Disastrous Red River Expedition — Battle of Pleasant Hill—. Retreat — Services of the Regiment after the Red River Campaign H 597

Chapter XXXVII. Thirty-third Infantry

Samuel A. Rice — Organization of his Regiment — Provost Guard at St. Louis — Proceed to Columbus, Kentucky — To Helena, Arkansas — Expedition against Fort Pemberton — The Battle of Helena — The Little Rock Campaign — The Southwestern Expedition — Battle of Jenkins' Ferry — Death of General Rice — Regiment at Little Rock — March to Van Buren and Return — Campaign of Mobile — Mustered out m 613

Chapter Xxxviii. Thirty-fourth Infantry

Rendezvous at Burlington — Sickness in " Camp Lauman" — The Good Samaritans of Burlington — Voyage to Helena — Chickasaw Bayou — Arkansas Post — Guard of Prisoners to Chicago — Rest at St. Louis — Haines' Bluff — In Louisiana — Morganza — In Texas — Proficiency in Drill — Admiral Farragut — Capture of Forts Gaines and. Morgan — The Regiment Consolidated with the Thirty-eighth — Canby's Campaign against Mobile — Subsequent History of the Regiment CONTENTS. 15

Chapter XXXIX. Thirty-fifth Infantry

PAGE Organized at Muscatine — Move to Cairo — Services in Illinois and Kentucky — Campaigns of Vicksburg and Jackson — Operations in Tennessee — Red River Expedition — Brilliant Success at Henderson's Hill— Battle of Old River Lake — Major John Commanding is Slain— Campaign of Tupelo — Campaign of Missouri — Battle of Nashville — Colonel Hill Slain — Winter Quarters in Northern Alabama — Campaign of Mobile — Conclusion 640

Chapter XL. Thirty-sixth Infantry

Rendezvous at Keokuk — Ordered South — Stop at Columbus and Memphis — Helena — The Yazoo Pass Expedition — Disease — Return to Helena — Celebrate the National Anniversary in Battle — Join the Little Rock Expedition — General Steele's " Southern Campaign" — Battle of Mark's Mill — The Regiment Captured— Its Organization Continued at Little Rock.... 651

Chapter XLI

"THE GRAY-BEARD REGIMENT." The Thirty-Seventh Infantry Composed of Men more than Forty-five Years of Age — Organized at Muscatine — Brief Account of its Services — Mustered out — The Question of Bounty 661

Chapter XLII. Thirty-eighth Infantry

"Camp Franklin"— Move to St. Louis— To Kentucky— Duty at New Madrid— Siege of Vicksburg— Expedition to Yazoo City— Port Hudson— Sickness — Death of Colonel Hughos— The Texas Expedition— Capture of Fort Morgan— Consolidated with the Thirty-fourth 664

Chapter XLIII. Fortieth Infantry

The last of the Three Years Infantry Regiments — * Copperheads" — The Formation of the Regiment—Departure for Cairo — Long Stay at Columbus, Kentucky— Paducah— Join the " Provisional Division" of the Sixteenth Army Corps — March to Little Rock — The Camden Expedition— Retreat— Battle of Jenkins' Ferry— In the Indian Country— Home 660

'ONE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN." Four Regiments and Four Companies Recruited for One Hundred Days in the Summer of 1864 — A Brief Account of the Organization and Services of these Troops ~ 714

Chapter LI. Thirty-ninth Infantry

Organization at Des Moines— Mustered at Davenport — Battle of Parker's Cross Roads— On Garrison Duty— The Campaign in Georgia under Sherman— The Defence of Allatoona — Lieutenant-Colonel Redfield Slain—" Sherman's March to the Sea" — Adjutant Byers' Lyric March through the Carolinas — The Grand Review at Washington City— Discharged 717

Chapter LII. Eighth Infantry

Organized at Davenport in the Summer of 1861— Campaigning nnder Fremont — Winter Quarters—The Regiment Captured at Shiloh— Reorganization— Short Campaign in Missouri— Vicksburg— Services in Tennessee— The Meridian Expedition— Provost Guard of Memphis—Defence of the City against Forrest's Attack— The Campaign of Mobile— The Assault of Spanish Fort— The Collapse of the Rebellion— Subsequent History 731 CHAPTER LIU. REBEL PRISONS— CHARITY. Brief Notice of Iowa Troops who Suffered Rebel Imprisonment— Benevolence— Orphans' Home..

Chapter I. First Iowa Volunteer Infantry

INTRODUCTION— THE ATTACK OF TRAITORS ON FORT SUMTER— THE NATION AROUSED —THE RESPONSE OF IOWA TO THE PRESIDENT'S CALL FOR SEVENTY-FIVE THOU SAND MEN — THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST REGIMENT — RENDEZVOUS AT KEOKUK— ENCAMP THERE— ORDERED TO REPORT TO GENERAL LYON— MARCH TO BOONEVILLE— TO SOUTH-WESTERN MISSOURI— AFFAIR OF DUG SPRINGS—McCUL LOUGH'S SPRINGS — GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON — BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK— RETREAT TO ROLLA— MUSTERED OUT. It is my purpose to write a history of the part taken by the troops of the State of Iowa in the war to suppress the wicked rebellion against the Union, which was commenced by traitors, in the attack on Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, and which rebellion, growing to gigantic proportions, called forth to suppress it no insignificant power from the least of the loyal States, and large armies from the most of them.

It is true, that in comparison of the part borne by the national troops in the war, the part borne by the troops of any single State may justly enough be considered as unimportant. The fact is, the war itself was of such magnitude, whether considered in respect of the geographical area over which it was waged, or the number of men sent to the field, or its cost, that the notions of our people have be come, so to say, immense, upon all subjects which have any the least bearing upon warfare, and I am not sure that my theme will be considered great enough for sober historical composition. But if we travel back of the present war in our own history, we shall find comparisons less magnificent, perhaps, in one sense ; but not in reality. The State of Iowa sent into the field, for instance, during the war for the Union, fully four times as many aien as General Scott had under his command during the Mexican war ; 3 fully ten times as many as General Jackson commanded when he won the victory of New Orleans; quite as many as General Washington ever had under command at one time, and very many more than he ever had under his immediate command; about as many as composed the Army of the Potomac when it gained the battle of Gettysburg.

These Union troops from Iowa occupied conspicuous positions, carried many flags, dropped from their muster-rolls in death and wounds many comrades, in all the important campaigns and battles of the west; in those of Sherman in the south-east; of Canby in the South; and in those of General Sheridan in the Shenan doah Valley. If the story of their gallant deeds be but modestly and truthfully told, it cannot be without interest or without importance. Moreover, the sentiment of State pride is one which, if I do not greatly err, ought to be cherished within proper bounds. The fundamental law of the nation gives no warrant for a strong government, in the old meaning of the words, at Washington. The teachings of our early statesmen have firmly fixed in the minds of the people the idea of State individuality, frequently called, by the abuse both of language and of truth, State sovereignty.

The doctrine, with its exact limitations, is correct in theory, and is, besides, of great practical importance. Misunderstood, mal-practiced, it may be come, as it has become in the South, secession, treason. Rightly under stood, rightly practiced, it makes of our State and National governments a band of brothers and a beneficent parent. The war did much to erase from the public mind the heresy of State sovereignty, and to write in its place the truth, State individuality. It is impossible to forget what each State did in the war, impossible to forget that each State did it all, not for itself, but for American nationality. It will be understood, then, that I have un dertaken this work with a strong sentiment of pride in the State of Iowa, and with a stronger sentiment of pride that Iowa is an honored State of the American Union.

I shall show that Iowa has clone its duty right manfully and heroically, without the remotest thought that every other loyal State has not done its duty right manfully and heroically. And, indeed, it would be impossible for me to give a clear and full description of the part taken by Iowa troops in the campaigns, either at the west or in the east, without honorable mention of their comrades who marched by their side, and whose blood mingled with theirs on so many battle-fields. The bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, and its capitulation the next day to the rebels, under the command of Beauregard, aroused the country to the highest pitch of indignation. The cry of "To arms!" was heard everywhere, from men of all political parties. The feeling was well nigh universal that the nation should avenge the insult by promptly waging war upon the insurgents.