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BREVET MAJOR GENERALS.
John M. Corse, Brigadier General from October 5, 1864. Edward Hatch, Brigadier General, from December 15, 1864. Wm. W. Belknap, Brigadier General, from March 13, 1865. W. L. Elliott, Brigadier General, from March 13, 1865. Wm. Vandever, Brigadier General, from June 7, 1865.
BREVET BRIGADIER GENERALS.
Wm. T. Clark, A. A. G., late of 13th Infantry, from July 22, 1864. Edward F. Winslow, Colonel 4th Cavalry, from December 12, 1864. S. G. Hill, Colonel 35th Infantry, from December 15, 1864. (Since died.) Thos. H. Benton, Colonel 29th Infantry, from December 15, 1864. Samuel L. Glasgow, Colonel 23d Infantry, from December 19, 1864. Clark R. Wever, Colonel 17th Infantry, from February 9, 1865. Francis M. Drake, Lieutenant Colonel 36th Infantry, from February 23, 1865. George A. Stone, Colonel-25th Infantry, from March 13, 1865. Datus E. Coon, Colonel 2d Cavalry, from March 8, 1865. George W. Clark, Colonel 34th Infantry, from March 13, 1865. Herman H. Heath, Colonel 7th Cavalry, from March 13, 1865. J. M. Hedrick, Colonel 15th Infantry, from March 13, 1865. W. W. Lowe, Colonel 5th Cavalry, from March 13, 1865.
"Thomas J. Mckean was appointed Paymaster in U. S. A. from Iowa, and subsequently promoted Brigadier General, to date from Nov. 21, 1861.
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NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AMONG OFFICERS OF IOWA REGIMENTS DURING THE WAR.
KILLED.
DIED.
DISCHARGED.
WOUNDED.
TRANSFERRED.
In action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Of wounds.
Of disease.
By drowning.
For disability.
Cause un-
known.
In action.
Accidentally.
Resigned.
Dismissed.
Captured.
To Vet. Res.
By appoint-
Total.
First Cavalry ...
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
4
4
84
3
46
1
..
..
3
8
Second Cavalry.
1
1
..
..
..
..
2
2
12
12
25
3
45
1
5
5
Third Cavalry ...
8
3
2
4
6
5
5
9
9
89
1
63
5
3
3
Fourth Cavalry ..
3
3
6
6
6
6
8
7
31
2
55
4
2
2
Fifth Cavalry ...
5
5
2
2
4
1
1
6
6
85
61
8
Sixth Cavalry
1
1
2
3
2
2
2
2
10
10
23
1
41
22
2
2
Ninth Cavalry ..
1
1
1
1
2
2
6
10
casualt's
rep.
Artillery, Third Battery ...
1
1
2
4
1
8
1
1
...
1
1
Second Infantry.
6
6
4
6
2
2
28
23
25
61
1
1
8
9
Second Veteran Infantry
2
2
1
1
..
..
....
...
..
..
...
..
6
1
1
Third Infantry .....
2
2
4
4
1
1
.35
34
40
81
8
2
2
Third Veteran Infantry ..
2
...
3
8
2
5
1
1
16
16
34
59
5
5
4
1
5
5
1
6
2
4
6
17
17
28
63
3
8
7
7
1
2
3
1
4
18
18
32
67
2
1
1
4
4
3
1
4
5
2
2
4
14
14
30
57
12
1
8
4
Ninth Infantry ...
6
6
7
2
9
1
8
5
24
2
26
26
..
72
9
...
6
...
3
...
8
8
1
8
...
9
11
2
13
19
1
45
22
1
.....
4
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Thirteenth Infantry
2
2
1
8
7
19
...
19
86
1
65
4
..
..
....
...
...
....
.. ......
1
1
2
1
1
1
..
1
15
2
21
1
1
Seventh Cavalry ..
15
6
23
....
..
..
..
8
1
1
2
...
25
80
Artillery, First Battery.
Artillery, Second Battery.
..
..
..
..
...
Artillery, Fourth Battery ..
First Infantry ...
1
4
4
..
..
..
3
3
9
1
1
1
Second and Third Infantry (consolidated) ....
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
...
1
28
37
78
6
1
...
..
..
..
..
..
6
Tenth Infantry. Eleventh Infantry ...
6 8
2
1
1
4
1
8
4
8
8
25
8
47
4
..
5
5
Twelfth Infantry ....
..
..
2
2
...
......
...
..
..
..
.....
..
..
....
..
...
.....
...
...
...
6
Eighth Infantry ..
8
...
16
32
68
1
..
1
1
4
4
16
...
....
2 8 2 5821
2
..
..
..
Fourth Infantry ..
3
Fifth Infantry.
...
5
...
22
Seventh Infantry.
8
...
...
..
..
..
...
1
1
Eighth Cavalry.
...
1
1
.....
5
.....
...
2
Sixth Infantry ...
..
1
250
REGIMENT OR BATTERY.
Corps.
ment.
Total.
Total.
Total.
Total casualties.
......
...
....
..
8
3
No
3
..
6
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
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133
2 185
88 |115
2 205 51 80 |182
565 | & 566 1225 56
2821 241
4 105 109
..
5
1
1
2
2
1
6
6
20
...
Twenty-first Infantry ...
1
...
1
8
1
2
3
5
...
Twenty-second Infantry ..
4
2
2
2
1
8
4
1
...
...
19
1
49
1
2
2
Twenty-sixth Infantry ......
2
2
4
4
...
..
...
8
5
2
2
4
8
5
8
8
8 20
89
2
1.
1
Thirty-first Infantry ....
2
2
.....
..
5
8
4
7
9
13
1
38
5
1
1
2
42
1
1
4
4
Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Thirty-fourth [34th and 88th ] consolidated ... -
8
8
1
4
5
1
1
2
12
2
25
27
23
1
1
Thirty-seventh Infantry.
3
8
1
2
3
21
3
27
2
2
Thirty-ninth Infantry ..
7
7
2
2
5
5
15
29
8
1
1
Fortieth Infantry ...
2
2
3
9
12
2
2
18
1
85
1
..
Forty-fourth Infantry.
1
1
Forty-fifth Infantry ....
No
casu
alt's ......
2
2
1
1
First Colored Regiment of Iowa (60th U. S.) ...
1
1
1
1
11
3
16
..
...
1
1
.....
..
...
6
2
1
1
8
3
22
22
1
62
5
6 2
2
Seventeenth Infantry.
2
..
2
8
1
..
1
1
19
1
20
69
14
2
2
Eighteenth Infantry, ..
.....
..
5
5
Nineteenth Infantry ..
1
...
...
4
2
...
..
..
...
..
...
54 4
1
1
Twenty-fifth Infantry .....
2
2
5 6 4 8
1 1 4 2
1 6
19 22 7 16
22 7 16
.. ....
8
1
1
Twenty-seventh Infantry ..
1 50
4
1
1
Twenty-ninth Infantry ....
4
4
5
2
7
8
8
17
17 27 83
1
46
...
Thirty-second Infantry ..
8
8
2
4
1
5
2
2
1
26
.....
8
28
35
1
1
1
2
4
..
...
..
..
..
.. ....
Thirty-sixth Infantry.
1
6
7
..
4
4
16 5
....
..
....
Thirty-eighth Infantry ....
8
8
..
...
..
1
..
..
..
Forty-sixth Infantry ....
Forty-seventh Infantry ..... Forty-eighth Infantry (battalion) ..
6
...
6
2211
1
85| 20 ..
Fourteenth Infantry.
3 1 ...
8
2
1
...
8
..
Fourteenth Residuary Battalion .....
Fifteenth Infantry .... Sixteenth Infantry ....
5
...
5
8
8
6
2
2
21
21
13
47
15
....
40 20!
5
...
2
2
7
7
18
1 86 83
12
8
3
Twentieth Infantry ..
...
15 22 9 17
11 22 9 17
26 26 27 23 24 28 17 21
1 1
48 56
1
1 2
1 2
Twenty third Infantry ...
7
4
..
...
2 8
5
...
...
...
..
2
2
Twenty-eighth Infantry ..
4
4
2
...
..
..
...
..
..
..
..
8
1
1
..
...
....
1
1
Thirty-fifth Infantry ....
2
...
..
..
11:
...
..
..... ...
......
......
1
1
......
5
...
....
...
.....
..
.....
2
1 2 2
5 8 8
..
.. ..
...
4 2
2
2
5
47
Twenty-fourth Infantry
7
8 2
1
1
2
...
..
....
....
58
Thirtieth Infantry .....
2
2
9 9
8
...
Thirty-Third Infantry.
8 8
1
2
..
3
82
....
...
..
..
5
5 83
3
...
27
...
.....
1
1
..
8
...
252
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AMONG ENLISTED MEN OF IOWA REGIMENTS DURING THE WAR.
KILLED.
DIED.
DISCHARGED.
WOUNDED.
In Action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Of Wounds.
Of Disease.
By Suicide.
By Drowning.
For Disability
Cause Un-
known.
In Action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Missing.
Captured.
ToV. R. Corps.
By Appoint- ment.
Total.
34
8
42
20
187 1
312
187
16: 203
81
3
84
2
543
21
14!
22
36
First Cavalry
87
3
40
28
191 .
140
29
169
158
3
101
10
602
73
26
11
87
Second Cavalry.
58
4
62
19
224 ...
2
245
220
85
305'
155
157
1
770
141
24
31
Third Cavalry ....
37
4
41
11
180 ...
4
201
151
82
233
108
4
112
B
690
90
25
81
33
Fourth Cavalry
36
42
7
127 1
137
172
61
223
47
3
50
452
209
14
3!
17
Fifth Cavalry ..
16 3
19
5
59: 2
4
70
70
16
80
15
3
18
193
1
5
6
Sixth Cavalry.
37 8
45
2
92 ....
101
228
18. 240
4
1
8
402
....
3
5
8
Seventh Cavalry.
24 3
27
9
91' ...
4
104
49
15
64
2
2
274
237
20
20
Eighth Cavalry.
5|1
6
10
162 ....
3
175
54
8
62
18
15
258
1
10
11
Artillery, 1st Battery.
62
1
5
1
8
2 1
3
1
83 ..
84
23
3
26
15
1
16
Artillery. 3d Battery.
6
11
11
Artillery, 4th Battery ...
-1
..
3 00.
3
...
....
165
758
13
9
6
15
55 3
58
17
107 ...
4
128
137
191 328
244
1
245
1
....
....
..
4
27
27
14
14
28
8
8
67
18
6
8
8
Second and Third Consolidated Infantry ....
62 3
55
28
99. ...
2
129
163
67
230
838
2
335
10
749
80
18
4
17
Third Veteran Infantry ..
67| 1
58
51
237 .
290
152
146
298
819
8
822
973
44
80
2
82
Fourth Infantry
59
1
60
29
90 1
120
222
15
237
278
282
.. ...
7
......
102 ...
102
80
124
.. ..
...
2
172
180
245
63
808
210
4
214
8
761
882,
21
18
84
Eighth Infantry ..
76
2
78
67
208.
1
266
243
26
269
864
860
1
978
23
24 .....
21
Ninth Infantry ..
66 1
67
85
184 ...
1 170
187| 116 262| 257|
4
261|
739|
16
41:
48
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12
5.
1
13
137
137
8
Second Infantry ..
89
..
11 ...
11
3
11
14
2
1
3
41
41
4. ...
...
9
10
1
....
1
28
23
2
......
17 ..
17
1
....
...
154
211
47
258
831
4
335
3
855
73
15
-1.
22
Seventh Infantry ..
49
1
50
44
187
1
...
..
Tenth Infantry ..
..
1
1
29
30
16.
16
14
1
15
124
..
...
...
....
...
...
...
....
71
..
...
*Independent Company Sioux City Cavalry.
1
4
4
5
..
..
..
..
3
..
....
..
3
51
64
25
9
84
28
1
29
8
8
Artillery, 2d Battery ..
17
..
......
+Company A, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry ... Dodge's Brigade Band.
First Infantry ....
..
1
Second Veteran Infantry
....
Third Infantry ..
699
45
2
47
Fifth Infantry ...
Sixth Infantry ..
94
94
130
108: 288
828
3
331
...
885
6
..
·
....
....
1
Total.
Total.
Total Casualties.
TRANSFERRED.
REGIMENT OR BATTERY.
Ninth Cavalry ..
...
12
..
7
182
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+ Partial returns.
1
66
84
182
1
122
145
137
53
190
162
11 302
392
894
7 1029
13
14
27
57. ..
57
32
217 97
:
1 116
129
93
222
225.
· 1
449
63
23 6
8 5
27 26 10
Seventeenth Infantry ..
26
2
28
7
109
3 119
222
183
5
188
190
1
562
204
27
13
40
Nineteenth Infantry .
8. ...
8
5
130
7
142
157
6
163
43
40
..
Twentieth Infantry .....
87
1
88
29
157 ..
2
188
139
14
163
147
2
531
10 20
49
2 5
64 42
Twenty-third Infantry ...
1
59
53
197
3
200
4
204
240
3
243
2
761
72
48
6
54
Twenty-fourth Infantry ...
564
17
16
8
69
Twenty-fifth Infantry .....
562
21 32
40
5
45
...
7
14
162
4 180
134
166
16
182
242
4
246
10
696
89
33
10
43
52!
52
24
180
1
19 2
21
17
248
1
266
7
124
97
2
99
1
511
53
31
6
87
Twenty-ninth Infantry.
646
19
46
1
47
Thirtieth Infantry.
11
11
16
261 ..
..
...
561
56
83
203
1
237
156
10
106
182
1
183
689
93
27
6'
..
Thirty-second Infantry ....
25 1
26
37
166
236
100
34
143
166
2
168
580
73
18
10
28
Thirty-third Infantry ...
4
4
2
228 1
231|
286
27
313
13
13
561
3
22
..
..
Thirty-fourth consolidated Battalion Infantry
3
1
4
2
10 ...
12
29
C.
12
2
14
66
510
15
51
14
65
23
2
25
19
182| 1
1 203
172
17
189
93
93
8
Thirty-fifth Infantry ...
85
35
24
226
1
251
187
4
191
142 ..
142.
619
437
17
. 6
28
Thirty-sixth Infantry ....
3
3
141
1
142
826
30 856
2
22
431
..
8
4
12
Thirty-eighth Infantry ...
83}
1
84
21
119
1
141
89
34
123
105
108
406
203
12
8
15
Thirty-ninth Infantry ....
5
5
10
179.
5
194
117
4
121
41
41
361
2
20
€
26
Fortieth Infantry
17
*Forty-first Infantry (battalion) ..
15
..
..
1
1
...
..
2
2
1
17 ..
1
19
1
1
22
1
1
Forty-fifth Infantry ..
2
2
1
23
24
1
..
..
..
1
1
...
4
4
....
881
5
837
40
40
1
1
..
..
89
30
196
2
228
171
6
177
138
162
2
164
4
40 2
42
29
204
8
236
140
1
141
140
3
143
..
..
..
..
1
40
24
233. .. .....
257
13
142
202
B
205 77
540
13
72:
72
Thirty-fourth Infantry .
6
..
.. ...
.. ....
3
3
3 .......
3
......
7
.. ...
..
...
1
310 ..
. 1
811
108
117,
2.
.......
...
...
2
2
15
15
..
..
14
14
Forty- fourth Infantry ....
25
3
Forty-seventh Infantry
4
Forty-eighth Infantry ...
883
1
1
First African Infantry [60th U. S.] ..
4 1
5
1
1
174| 121|
4
26|
59; 382 19
8
22
Twelfth Infantry ....... .
80 ...
30
25| 32
148 ... 243 1 276 217
124 192
77
269
290
4 294 162
6
84 15
15 10
80 23
Fourteenth Infantry.
11
..
1
1
2
Fourteenth Residuary Battalion
52 ..
52
78| 194 ..
2 274
270
160
49
209
289
1
819
242 264
21
6
Sixteenth Infantry ....
43| ...
43
18
52
126
2
180
150
8
158
245. 123
·
570
41
1
42
39
...
39
22
199
....
120
18
202
132
8
135
580
79 3.
40
2
..
Twenty-second Infantry ..
53
1
54
...
1940 78.2017 1199 8695| 8.109 10011 8005 1982 9987 8180| 112 8282 115, 30394 .4489 1264 281 1545
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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
Eleventh Infantry
1 6| 226) 209
......
610 !! 768 852
1 526
249 13
.. 78
Fifteenth Infantry ...
290 225 74 191
14 8 ..
Eighteenth Infantry.
53! ..
53
33
91 ...
..
859
36
38
Twenty-first Infantry ...
89
Twenty-sixth Infantry ...
6
Twenty-seventh Infantry ..
1 206
117 129
137
38
175
Thirty-first Infantry ...
...
..
503
..
2
2
Thirty-seventh Infantry ..
1
...
Forty-sixth Infantry ...
....
45
1
46
47%
..
..
64| 1|
111 37
Thirteenth Infantry .....
65
27 1
28
23
7
4 82
....
614
6 228
73
3 150 245 3 126
..
58
69
..
7
Twenty-eighth Infantry ..
2
39
.......
..
... .....
Thirty-fourth [34th and 38th] Infantry consolidated
...
...
.. ....
..
....
..
21
277
3
7
22
634
253 219
130
249
257 208
80| 151| 220 133
......
254
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
NUMBER OF TROOPS FURNISHED BY THE STATE OF IOWA DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, TO JANUARY 1, 1865.
No. Regiment.
No. of men.
No. Regiment.
No. of men.
1st Iowa Infantry
959 39th Iowa Infantry.
983
2d
.6
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1,247 40th “
900
4th
1,184 44th Infantry (100-days men)
867
5th
1,087 45th
912
6th
1,018 46th
7th
1,138
47th
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892 884
8th
1,027 148th Battalion
346
9th
1,090
Ist Iowa Cavalry.
1,478
10th
1,027 2d
1,394 1,860
12th
981
4th
1,227
18th
989
5th
1,245
14th
840
6th
1,125 562
15th
1,196
7th
16th
919
8th
1,234
17th
956
9th
1,178
18th
875 Sioux City Cavalry*
19th
985 Co. A, 11th Penn. Cavalry
20th
925 1st Battery Artillery
21 st
..
980 2d
1,008
8d
961
4th ..
152 908
25th
4
940
Enlistments as far as reported to Jan. 1,
2,766
29th
1,005
1864, for the older Iowa regiments ..... Enlistments of Iowa men in regiments of other States, over.
2,500
31st
977
Total.
61,658
88d
985 Re-enlisted Veterans for different Regi- ments.
7,202 6,664
36th
986
37th
914 Grand total as far as reported up to Jan.
38th
910 1, 1865.
75,519
This does not include those Iowa men who veteranized in the regiments of other States, nor the names of men who enlisted during 1864, in regiments of other States.
* Afterward consolidated with Seventh Cavalry.
+ Only a portion of this regiment was credited to the State.
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23d
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24th
979 995 1st Iowa African Infantry, 60th U. St. Dodge's Brigade Band ....
14
26th
919|Band of 2d lowa Infantry ..
10
27th
28th
956
80th
978
32d
925
34th
958
85th
984 Additional enlistments
128
22d
11th
1,022
8d ..
8d
1,074 41st Battalion Iowa Infantry ..
294
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....
98 87 149
142
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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
POPULATION OF IOWA, BY COUNTIES.
COUNTIES.
1875.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
Voters.
Adair.
7045
3982
984
1616
Adams
7832
4614
1538
1727
Allamakee
19158
17868
12287
777
8653
Appanoose
17405
16456
11931
3181
3679
Audubon
2870
1212
454
527
Benton.
28807
22454
8496
672
4778
Black Hawk
22918
21706
8244
135
4877
Boone
17251
14584
4232
785
3515
Bremer
18220
12528
4915
2656
Buchanan
17815
17034
7906
517
8890
Buena Vista
8561
1585
57
817
Buncombe*
Butler
11734
9951
8724
2598
Calhoun
8185
1602
147
681
Carroll.
5760
2451
281
1197
Cass
10552
5464
1612
2422
Cedar
17879
19731
12949
8941
1258
3934
Cerro Gordo
6685
472
940
1526
Cherokee.
4249
1967
58
1001
Chickasaw
11400
10180
4386
Clarke
10118
8786
5427
79
2218
Clay ..
8559
1523
62
868
Clayton
27184
27771
20728
8878
1101
5272
Clinton.
84295
35357
18938
2822
821
5569
Crawford.
6039
2530
888
1244
Dallas.
14886
12019
5244
854
8170
Davis ..
15757
15565
18764
7264
8448
Decatur.
18249
12018
8677
965
2882
Delaware ..
16898
17432
11024
1759
168
3662
Des Moines.
85416
27256
19611
12988
6577
6654
Dubuque
43845
88969
31164
10841
8059
894 8759 299
Fayette.
20515
16978
12078
825
4637
Floyd.
13100
10768
8744
2884
Franklin
6558
4738
1809
1374
Fremont.
18719
11178
5074
1244
2998
Grecne.
8184
6899
793
1525
Guthrie
9688
7061
8058
2889
Hamilton
7701
6056
1699
1455
Hancock
1482
999
179
803
Hardin
15029
13684
5440
8215
Harrison.
11818
8931
8621
2658
Henry
21594
21463
18701
8707
8772
4641
Howard
7875
6282
8168
1712
Humboldt
8455
2596
832
695
Ida.
794
226
43
172
Iowa.
17456
16644
8029
822
3576
Jackson
23061
22619
18498
7210
1411
4901
Jasper ..
24128
22116
9888
1280
5239
Jefferson
17127
17839
15038
9904
2778
8721
Johnson
24664
24898
17578
4472
1491
5225
Jones .
19168
197311
18306
8007
471
4180
* In 1862, name changed to Lyon.
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Dickinson
1748
1389
180
Emmett
1486
1892
105
1622
Grundy
7028
4627
1374
2392
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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA. POPULATION OF IOWA-CONCLUDED.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1875,
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
Voters.
Keokuk
20488
19434
13271
4822
4202
Kossuth
8765
8351
416
Lee.
33918
38210
29232
18861
6093
7274
Linn
81815
28852
18947
5444
1873
7509
Louisa
12499
12877
10370
4989
1927
2899
Lucas
11725
10388
5766
471
2464
Lyon*
1139
221
Madison.
16030
13884
7339
1179
8632
Mahaska
23718
22508
14816
5989
5287
Marion.
24094
24436
16818
6482
4988
Marshall
19629
17676
6015
338
4445
Mills ..
10555
8718
4481
2365
Mitchell
11523
9582
8409
Monona
2267
3654
832
Monroe
12811
12724
8612
2884
2743
Muscatine
21623
21688
16444
5731
1942
6588
O' Brien.
2349
715
8
695 498
Page
14274
9975
4419
551
8222
Palo Alto
2728
1336
182
556
Plymouth.
5282
2199
148
1136
Pocahontas
2249
1446
103
464
Polk.
31558
27857
11625
4513
6842
Pottawattomie
21665
16893
4968
7828
4392
Poweshiek
16482
15581
5668
615
3634
Ringgold.
7546
5691
2923
1496
Sac ..
2878
1411
246
657
Scott.
39763
38599
25959
5986
2140
7109
Shelby
5664
2540
818
1084
Sioux.
3120
576
10
637
Story
13111
11651
4051
2574
Tama.
18771
16131
5285
8
3911
Taylor
10418
6989
3590
204
2282
Union
8827
6986
2012
1924
Van Buren ..
16980
17672
17081
12270
6146
3893
Wapello
23865
22346
14518
8471
5346
Warren.
18541
17980
10281
961
4168
Washington
19269
18952
14235
4957
1594
4168
Wayne
13978
11287
6409
340
2947
Webster.
13114
10484
2504
2747
Winnebago
2986
1562
168
406
Winneshiek
24233
23570
13942
546
4117
Woodbury.
8568
6172
1119
1776
Worth
4908
2892
756
763
Wright ..
3244
2392
653
694
Total
1853118 1191792
674913
192214
43112 284557
* Formerly Buncombe.
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Montgomery
10389
5934
1256
2485
Osceola
1778
287
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THE NORTHWESTERN STATES.
ILLINOIS.
Length, 380 miles, mean width about 156 miles. Area, 55,410 square miles, or 35,462,400 acres. Illinois, as regards its surface, constitutes a table-land at a varying elevation ranging between 350 and 800 feet above the sea level ; composed of extensive and highly fertile prairies and plains. Much of the south division of the State, especially the river-bottoms, are thickly wooded. The prairies, too, have oasis-like clumps of trees scattered here and there at intervals. The chief rivers irrigating the State are the Mississippi-dividing it from Iowa and Missouri-the Ohio (forming its south barrier), the Illinois, Wabash, Kaskaskia, and San- gamon, with their numerous affluents. The total extent of navigable streams is calculated at 4,000 miles. Small lakes are scattered over vari- ous parts of the State. Illinois is extremely prolific in minerals, chiefly coal, iron, copper, and zinc ores, sulphur and limestone. The coal-field alone is estimated to absorb a full third of the entire coal-deposit of North America. Climate tolerably equable and healthy ; the mean temperature standing at about 51º Fahrenheit As an agricultural region, Illinois takes a competitive rank with neighboring States, the cereals, fruits, and root- crops yielding plentiful returns ; in fact, as a grain-growing State, Illinois may be deemed, in proportion to her size, to possess a greater area of lands suitable for its production than any other State in the Union. Stock- raising is also largely carried on, while her manufacturing interests in regard of woolen fabrics, etc., are on a very extensive and yearly expand- ing scale. The lines of railroad in the State are among the most exten- sive of the Union. Inland water-carriage is facilitated by a canal connecting the Illinois River with Lake Michigan, and thence with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic. Illinois is divided into 102 counties ; the chief towns being Chicago, Springfield (capital), Alton, Quincy, Peoria, Galena, Bloomington, Rock Island, Vandalia, etc. By the new Consti- tution, established in 1870, the State Legislature consists of 51 Senators, elected for four years, and 153 Representatives, for two years; which numbers were to be decennially increased thereafter to the number of six per every additional half-million of inhabitants. Religious and educational institutions are largely diffused throughout, and are in a very flourishing condition. Illinois has a State Lunatic and a Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Jacksonville; a State Penitentiary at Joliet ; and a Home for
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Soldiers' Orphans at Normal. On November 30, 1870, the public debt of the State was returned at 84,870,937, with a balance of $1,808,833 unprovided for. At the same period the value of assessed and equalized property presented the following totals: assessed, 8840,031,703; equal- ized 8480,664,058. The name of Illinois, through nearly the whole of the eighteenth century, embraced most of the known regions north and west of Ohio. French colonists established themselves in 1673, at Cahokia and Kaskaskia, and the territory of which these settlements formed the nucleus was, in 1763, ceded to Great Britain in conjunction with Canada, and ultimately resigned to the United States in 1787. Illinois entered the Union as a State, December 3, 1818; and now sends 19 Representatives to Congress. Population, 2,539,891, in 1870.
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INDIANA.
The profile of Indiana forms a nearly exact parallelogram, occupy- ing one of the most fertile portions of the great Mississippi Valley. The greater extent of the surface embraced within its limits consists of gentle undulations rising into hilly traets toward the Ohio bottom. The chief rivers of the State are the Ohio and Wabash, with their numerous affluents. The soil is highly productive of the cereals and grasses-most particularly so in the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash, Whitewater, and White Rivers. The northeast and central portions are well timbered with virgin forests, and the west seetion is notably rich in coal, constitut- ing an offshoot of the great Illinois carboniferous field. Iron, copper, marble, slate, gypsum, and various clays are also abundant. From an agricultural point of view, the staple products are maize and wheat, with the other cereals in lesser yields ; and besides these, flax, hemp, sorghum, hops, etc., are extensively raised. Indiana is divided into 92 counties, and counts among her principal cities and towns, those of Indianapolis (the capital), Fort Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute, Madison, Jefferson- ville, Columbus, Vincennes, South Bend, etc. The public institutions of the State are many and various, and on a scale of magnitude and efficiency commensurate with her important political and industrial status. Upward of two thousand miles of railroads permeate the State in all directions, and greatly conduce to the development of her expanding manufacturing interests. Statistics for the fiscal year terminating October 31, 1870, exhibited a total of receipts, $3,896,541 as against dis- bursements, 83,532,406, leaving a balance, 8364,135 in favor of the State Treasury. The entire public debt, January 5, 1871, $3,971,000. This State was first settled by Canadian voyageurs in 1702, who erected a fort at Vincennes ; in 1763 it passed into the hands of the English, and was by the latter eeded to the United States in 1783. From 1788 till 1791, an Indian warefare prevailed. In 1800, all the region west and north of Ohio (then formed into a distinct territory) became merged in Indiana. In 1809, the present limits of the State were defined, Michigan and Illinois having previously been withdrawn. In 1811, Indiana was the theater of the Indian War of Tecumseh, ending with the decisive battle of Tippecanoe. In 1816 (December 11), Indiana became enrolled among the States of the American Union. In 1834, the State passed through a monetary crisis owing to its having become mixed up with railroad, canal, and other speculations on a gigantic seale, which ended, for the time being, in a general collapse of public credit, and consequent bank- ruptcy. Since that time, however, the greater number of the public
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works which had brought about that imbroglio - especially the great Wabash and Erie Canal - have been completed, to the great benefit of the State, whose subsequent progress has year by year been marked by rapid strides in the paths of wealth, commerce, and general social and political prosperity. The constitution now in force was adopted in 1851. Population, 1,680,637.
IOWA.
In shape, Iowa presents an almost perfect parallelogram; has a length, north to south, of about 300 miles, by a pretty even width of 208 miles, and embraces an area of 55,045 square miles, or 35,228,800 acres. The surface of the State is generally undulating, rising toward the middle into an elevated plateau which forms the "divide" of the Missouri and Mississippi basins. Rolling prairies, especially in the south section, constitute a regnant feature, and the river bottoms, belted with woodlands, present a soil of the richest alluvion. Iowa is well watered ; the principal rivers being the Mississippi and Missouri, which form respectively its east and west limits, and the Cedar, Iowa, and Des Moines, affluents of the first named. Mineralogically, Iowa is important as occupying a section of the great Northwest coal field, to the extent of an area estimated at 25,000 square miles. Lead, copper, zinc, and iron, are also mined in considerable quantities. The soil is well adapted to the production of wheat, maize, and the other cereals; fruits, vegetables, and esculent roots; maize, wheat, and oats forming the chief staples. Wine, tobacco, hops, and wax, are other noticeable items of the agricul- tural yield. Cattle-raising, too, is a branch of rural industry largely engaged in. The climate is healthy, although liable to extremes of heat and cold. The annual gross product of the various manufactures carried on in this State approximate, in round numbers, a sum of $20,000,000. Iowa has an immense railroad system, besides over 500 miles of water- communication by means of its navigable rivers. The State is politically divided into 99 counties, with the following centers of population : Des Moines (capital), Iowa City (former capital), Dubuque, Davenport, Bur- lington, Council Bluffs, Keokuk, Muscatine, and Cedar Rapids. The State institutions of Iowa-religious, scholastic, and philanthropic- are on a par, as regards number and perfection of organization and operation, with those of her Northwest sister States, and education is especially well cared for, and largely diffused. Iowa formed a portion of the American territorial acquisitions from France, by the so-called Louisiana purchase in 1803, and was politically identified with Louisiana till 1812,
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