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After this great victory of General Pope, the regiment, together with the whole army, immediately commenced the campaign of Island No. Ten, which in due time was taken.
After the battle of Corinth, the regiment had a period of rest in camp near that place, which continued about one month, at the end of which time it joined in the movement under General Grant into cen- tral Mississippi, whereby it was intended to attack Vicksburg in rear, but which design was thwarted and the campaign rendered futile by Van Dorn's success in cutting General Grant's communications and destroying his principal depot of sup- plies, at Holly Springs. Having on this expedition marched as far as Oxford, the regiment there turned about face, and marched to Memphis. At that city and near by the regiment remained in camp and winter quarters till the campaign of the following spring.
The regiment found at Champion Hills the bloodiest ordeal through which it wax ever called to pass, suffering a loss, in killed, wounded, and missing, of nearly fifty per cent. of those engaged. The regi- ment, with the brigade, rushed into the fight when the rebels had succeeded in forcing back Ilovey and in throwing him into temporary confusion where a rout must have entailed a terrible disaster upon our arms, and succeeded by as desperate fighting as was ever witnessed in holding the enemy in check until Crocker threw in other troops, who animated by his intrepid spirit, and sustained by his splendid nerve, snatched glorious victory out of the defeat which seemed so imminent. lIere the tide of the battle turned and swept the
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rebel army from the field. But Boomer's brigade was immolated. The losses in the Tenth regiment were fearful. Captain Poag, Lieutenant Brown, and Lieutenant Terry were killed on the field, Captains Lusby, Ilosbon, Kuhn, and Ilead and Lieu- tenants Meekins and Gregory were wound- ed, whilst the scene of their confliet was strewn with the dead and wounded.
The campaigns of 1863 for this regiment elosed with the victory of Chattanooga. It joined in the pursuit of the rebels, but soon after the battle marehed into Alabama, and went into winter quarters at Hunts- ville. During the months of January and February, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted and became a veteran organization, and entered the service as such on the first of February. Notwithstanding the regiment had been so greatly reduced by its active campaigns, nearly three hundred re-entered the service. When it had re-enlisted, the exigencies of the service forbade its taking, at the time, that furlough to which, by general rule, it would have been entitled, and it was sent home on veteran furlough in the midst of the summer. The regiment went to Iowa in June, and having enjoyed a month there in which they were most handsomely treated by the people, officers and men returned to their field of duty in the latter part of July, Colonel Henderson bringing with him a splendid sword, the gift of his friends in Warren county.
In the campaign of the Carolinas, the regiment distinguished itself at the passage of the Salkahatchie river, crossing the stream, which was waist deep, in front of the enemy posted behind considerable
earthworks, and with the Fifty-sixth Illi- nois charging and driving the rebels like scared sheep before them. It was with the column which brought Columbia into our possession, and warmly engaged, at Cox's Bridge, on the Neuse river, North Carolina, in one of the skirmishes prelim- inary to the Battle of Bentonville, and which was the last engagement with the enemy in which the Tenth took part. This affair of Cox's Bridge oceurred on the 19th day of March, 1865, a few days more than three years from the triumphal march of the regiment, at the head of Pope's Army of the Mississippi into New Madrid, on the bank of the Father of Waters.
From Bentonville the regiment moved to Goldsboro, thence to Raleigh, where Johnston soon capitulated, and thenee to Washington eity, where it participated in the famous review. From Washington it moved to Louisville, where the men sup- posed they would be mustered out of service. In this they were mistaken. The fighting days of the regiment were over, but not its journeyings. Having remained at Louisville a few weeks, it was ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, whither it pro- ceeded without visible discontent, but certainly, one should suppose, not without mental exeerations upon the heads of the authorities promulgating the order. Nor did events show that there was the least necessity for it. No speck of war appeared in that dark quarter of the national horizon, and the next order the regiment received was an order for muster out. In obedience to which, it was mus- tered out at Little Rock, on the 15th of August, then numbering but little more than three hundred men.
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ELEVENTII INFANTRY.
COMPANY B. Musician : B. C. Stevens.
TWELFTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY D. Corporal: S. J. Crowhurst. COMPANY E.
Privates:
S. J. Crowhurst, M. Copeland,
( !. B. Ilayward, W. C. Shafer, H. H. Crowhurst.
The Twelfth was recruited soon after the disaster at Bull Run, and was organ- ized with J. J. Wood, of Maqnoketa, as Colonel. It was mustered into service in October and November, 1861, and was engaged at Shiloh, Fort Donelson, siege of Vicksburg, Tupelo, Mississippi, White River, Nashville and Spanish Fort.
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THIRTEENTH INFANTRY
COMPANY O.
First Lieutenant : G. B. Sharp. Privates :
R. Billingham, E. Kern,
James Millage,
J. R. Thomas,
Ward B. Sheruian, W. S. Townsend.
W G. Bates, Wm. Wade,
J. Brick.
This regiment was mustered into the service of the United States November 1, 1861, with N. M. Crocker, of Des Moines, as Colonel. The regiment was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinthi, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Vicksburg, campaign against Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, and through the Carolinas, home.
FOURTEENTII INFANTRY.
COMPANY A.
Sergeants :
J. Luke, L. B. Hartman.
Corporal : J. W. MeRoberts.
Privates :
C. F. Alexander, N. C. Ingham.
J. C. Barrett,
J. W. Kresson,
II S. Cuningham,
J. M. Lefler.
E. Gallion, W. Leach,
P. E. Greenlief,
J. Mills,
George Ilelm,
J. Morton,
J. Manerth, W. Spear,
D. Rosenberger,
C Vimpany,
W. Rogers, P. B. Willey,
A. Reins, J. Il. Wilkins,
G. W. Shiner, George Yarman.
COMPANY G.
Captains :
W. II. Stivers, George Pemberton.
First Lieutenant :
William Gallagher.
Second Lieutenant : S F. Eccles.
Sergeants :
J A. Shanklin,
S. F. Eceles,
G. A. Walroth,
E. G. Oldroid.
Corporals :
Peter Wilson, B. F Thomas,
John Maholm. William Breeze,
G. A Pope,
John Gaston.
Musician :
James Fox.
Privates :
J. II. Luke,
J. Mills,
J. Brannan,
M. Grubbs,
L Bowen, John Gaston,
J. Burright, William L. Gort,
('. Burright,
J. IIunnieutt,
S. Clark,
- George Heimliek,
M. Clark,
G. Hiatt,
R. F. Clark,
A. Kellogg,
E. Dykeman,
J. H. Luke,
J. R. Edwards,
Henry Loomis,
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Charles Edwards, J. Miles,
R. Fitch,
David Miles,
J. R. Fetter,
J. R. Myers,
J. E. McKune,
E. Stokes,
J. B. Overturf.
D. Southwick,
L. Powell,
J. B. Wineman,
J. A. Pope. H. Il. Williams,
David Zehrung,
D. S. Young,
E. S. Young.
The 14th Infantry, Colonel William T. Shaw, was organized in the fall of 1861, being enrolled under the President's pro- clamation of October 3d of that year. Before the regiment was organized, three companies recruited therefor, and which were designated as Companies A, B, and C therein, were sent to the western fron- tier on special service, and remained ever afterwards detached from the regiment. Though these companies continued, pro forma, to continue a part of the 14th regiment for a considerable period, they were never under the command of the commanding officer of the regiment, and never did, except by the merest technical- ity, make a part of it.
As a matter of fact, therefore, as con- tradistinguished from a mere matter of record, or of law, the 14th Iowa during the first year of its service, consisted of but seven companies, from D) to K inclus- ive. These companies were enlisted in different parts of the State, but Henry county contributed much more largely than any other to the number of the regiment. Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren, Jasper, Tama, Jones, Linn, Dubuque, Johnson, also con- tributed largely, and quite a number of other counties were not ungenerously rep- resented in the command. The regimen- tal rendezvous was at Camp MeClellan ,
near Davenport, where the regiment was organized, November 6, 1861, with the fol- lowing officers, field, staff and line : William T. Shaw, Colonel; Edward W. Lucas, Lieutenant-Colonel; Hiram Leon- ard, Major; Noah N. Tyner, Adjutant; C. C. Buell, Quartermaster; George M. Staples, Surgeon; S. N. Pierce, Assistant; Company D, Captain R. D. Emerson; Lieutenants R. J. Harrison, William M. Gordon; Company E, Captain Joseph O. Shannon; Lieutenants John W. Ilorine, Neal Murray; Company F, Captain Joseph Il. Newbold ; Lieutenants William H. Shney, Cyrus Bitner; Company G, Captain William II. Stivers; Lieutenants George Pemberton, William Gallighar; Company Il, Captain Edgar A. Warner; Lieuten- ants William II. Calkins, Leroy A. Crane; Company I, Captain Warren C. Jones; Lieutenants John M. Moorehead, George II. Logan; Company K, Captain William J. Campbell; Lieutenants William II. Kirkwood, Charles P. King. At this time, not counting those who formed the companies which never served with the main body, there were more than six hun- dred, officers and enlisted men, in the ser- vice.
The first active service was at Fort Donelson. On the first day of the battle it was in position in the left wing, General Percifer F. Smith, commanding. In the battle which followed, the regiment was couspienous for its gallantry, fighting with that immortal brigade, under command of Colonel J. G. Lauman, which first forced its way into the rebel works, and won the brightest laurels among all the bright wreaths which were here won by the army under Grant. The regiment in this, its
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first battle, lost three killed and twenty- one wounded.
It remained at Fort Donelson about three weeks after the capitulation. It their embarked on steamers, and moving down the Cumberland and up the Tennes- see, disembarked at Pittsburg Landing on the 18th of March. In the battle of Shiloh, the Fourteenth formed part of that self-constituted Forlorn Hope which, fighting the live-long day against fearful odds, and staying the rebel advance, by its own heroic immolation saved the army and made the victory of the 7th of April possible. Just as the sun was setting Col- onel Shaw, seeing further fighting useless, surrendered his command prisoners of war. The losses up to this time in killed and wounded had been heavy, but the sae- rifice of these and of the principal com- mand in captivity, practically elosed the career of the Fourteenth for many months.
The officers and men surrendered were held as prisoners of war at the South until late in the following fall, when, moving by Richmond, Virginia, and Annapolis, Maryland, they went to Benton Barracks, Missouri, being released on parole, and were declared exchanged on the 19th of November. Here, then, the command re- mained for re-organization during the fol- lowing winter.
On the 10th of April, the re-organized command left St. Louis on steamer, and in due time making the port of Cairo, there disembarked and went into eamp.
From Cairo the command moved to Co- lumbus, Kentucky, in the latter part of June. And there it remained on garrison duty for seven long months.
On the 24th of January, 1864, the regi-
ment embarked on steamers and proceed- ed to Vicksburg. Here it was assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Six- teenth. Army Corps. Colonel Shaw was in command of the brigade, and from this time until he left the service, nine months afterwards, had command either of the brigade, or of a Division. Ilis brigade, by its endurance of fatigue, and its firm- ness in battle, acquired the sobriquet of "The Iron Brigade, " and its commander that of "Grim Fighting Old Shaw." Lieutenant-Colonel Newbold in command, the regiment, very soon after its arrival at Vicksburg, took up line of march east- ward with the army under Major-General Sherman, which made the famous Merid- ian raid. This laborious, singular cam- paign of one month's duration hardly did more than give the Fourteenth a good appetite. It enjoyed the marching and the bivouacking, and laughed at blistered feet, thinking them decidedly preferable to unblistered feet in a garrison.
The regiment next formed a part of the Red River expedition, under Banks. Its record in that expedition is indeed commendable ; its loss was very great. It was mustered out of Service November 16, 1864.
SIXTEENTII INFANTRY.
COMPANY I.
Private : H. Sipe.
EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY K.
Private : B. F. Smith.
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TWENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
COMPANY D.
Private :
E. A. Burnham.
COMPANY E.
Captain :
Leander Clark.
First Lieutenant :
S. S. Dillman .
James Rokes,
M. Mefford.
Corporals :
J. S. Edmonds,
E. S. Edwards,
T. N. Perkins,
Geo. W. Stoddard,
J H. Lewis.
Privates :
G. Alexander,
M. Mink,
E. Bailey,
John Mubeah,
W. W. Beatty,
L. Mitchell,
J. W. Conant,
O. N. Mason,
J. W. Coe,
S. W. MeGee,
C. F. McGee,
A. J. Drew,
John Misner,
W. Dobson,
E. S Edwards,
llenry Phillips,
R. Filloon,
S. R. Rushton,
A. H Feeler,
J. M. Snow,
W. Gower,
E. O. Thomas,
George Ilillmon,
I. Voorhies,
George Ilemstead,
F. Vernier,
Wmn. J Knight,
W. T. Wilber,
D. W. Laughlin,
E. Brewer,
W. L. Conant,
J. A. Lamm,
G. W. Louthan,
1. Donald,
N. B. Loomis,
E. 11. Finch,
D. O. Gardner,
G. Parcher,
M. Harris,
A. J. Roberts,
B. C. llayes,
Phillips Rhoads,
A B. Knight,
Allen Mason,
A. T. King,
A. A. Swarthout,
W. S King.
E. S. Beckley,
G. Lamm,
E. Granger,
11. Merrill,
James Young.
TWENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
Soon after the receipt of the President's
Proclamation of July 2, 1862, calling for 300,000 volunteers, Governor Kirkwood issued a commission to Eber C. Byam, of Linn county, authorizing him to raise a regiment to be called "The Iowa Temper- ance Regiment," Cireulars were accord- ingly distributed by Byam through Linn and the adjoining counties. In a very short time more than double the requisite number of companies were organized and ready to march to the appointed rendez- vous. They were composed of men of temperance principles and temperance habits-that is to say, of men who touch not, taste not, handle not spirituous or malt liquor, wine or cider. This was the intention. Out of the companies reported as ready to join the regiment choice was made as follows : Company E, from Tama county, with Leander Clark as Captain ; three from Linn county, F, G and HI, un- der Captains Dimmitt, Vinson and Car- bee; two from Cedar county, B and C, under Captains Rathburn and Johnson ; two from Jackson county, A and I, under Captains Henderson and Martin : one from Johnson county under Captain Cas- beer ; and Company K, from Jones, with Captain Williams. E. C. Byam was du- ly commissioned Colonel ; John Q. Wilds, Lieutenant-Colonel ; and Ed. Wright, Major.
The rendezvous of the companies was at Camp Strong, near the city of Muscatine, where the Thirty-fifth was also rendez- vousing at the same time. After medical inspection of the Twenty-fourth some of the companies were more than full. Those making the excess were transferred to the Thirty-fifth. On the 18th of September the regiment was mustered into the ser-
J. Pass,
S. Dykeman,
Sergeants :
James. H.Brooks.
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vice of the United States and was hence- forward officially known as the Twenty- fourth Iowa Infantry though it was long called by the public and by newspaper correspondents the " Temperance Regi- ment." The command remained at Camp Strong more than a month after muster-in, having a great deal of fun, drill parade and bad water, and a good deal of measles in camp. Marching orders came on Oc- tober 19, and on the next day the regi- ment embarked for St. Louis. On reach- ing that city, orders were received com- manding the regiment to proceed forth- with to Ilelena. It reached that place on the 28th, disembarked and went into camp on the bank of the Mississippi river, near town. At this time the regiment num- bered, in officers and men, nine hundred and fifty, all apparently in good health. In a short time, however, on account of exposure during the late voyage, the steam- er having been much crowded, and of the unhealthy locality, more than a hundred were on the sick list.
During the winter the regiment re- mained at IIelena, except during three or four short periods in which it marched with certain expeditions, one or two of which had a military purpose in view, the others having no purpose whatever that has yet been discovered. As has been said, "this was a time when so many offi- cers had expedition on the brain." On the 17th of November, Brigadier General A. P. Hovey took some transports and made an expedition. Ile took his com- mand to the mouth of the White River and then back again without having dis- embarked or seen an enemy. The Twenty- fourth was with him. The regiment on
the Twenty-eighth marched, under the same General, in the direction of Cold- water, Mississippi. The command now had its first experience in marching, and found no difficulty in keeping up with the veteran troops. Arrived at Coldwater, the brigade in which was our regiment halted, while another with a small force of cav- alry advanced to Oakland, some twenty miles further. On the afternoon of De- cember Ist, artillery firing was heard in the direction of Oakland, the first sound of actual battle that had yet reached the ears of the Twenty-fourth. The brigade at Coldwater was at once formed and soon moved to the front on the double quick. Having thus marched several miles they heard of the retreat of the enemy, and then about faced and returned to Coldwater. They reached Helena again on the 7th of December. On the morning of January 11, 1863, the regiment em- barked with the troops who endured so much suffering during General Gorman's White River Expedition.
When the regiment reached Helena on its return, the old encampment had to be abandoned on account of the rising water. Helena was inundated and a new camp was made on the first range of hills in the rear of the town, and about one mile dis- tant. During this rainy winter the troops stationed there were unspeakably miser- able. It was the darkest period of the war for them all. The troops who were well enough to sit up, all sat in their cheer- less quarters, ruminating on their own un- happiness, barely noting the drum beat for the dead, beating evermore. General Fisk, commanding brigade, accomplished what mortal could accomplish toward
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driving off the clouds of despondeney settling over the army. The expedition under General Washburn, which left Helena February 15, to open the Yazoo Pass to navigation, aroused the army from its lethargy. Of this expedition, General Fisk's Brigade formed a part. From its return till the commencement of the cam- paign against Vicksburg, the Twenty- fourth had daily drill and almost daily dress parade.
When the army was re-organized for the active operations of spring, the Twenty- fourth was attached to the Thirteenth corps. It was known to all that the taking of Vicksburg was to be the object of the campaign, and all looked forward to the hour of departure with joy. Nevertheless, when the troops moved their hearts were filled with deep and solemn feelings. Not one but had a brother or favorite comrade sleeping the last sleep on the bluffs above, or in the vale by the river's bank below. The Twenty-fourth had, probably, suffered neither less nor more than the other regi- ments. During the first three months of the year fifty of its members were buried near Helena. More were sent to the hos- pitals of Memphis, Cairo and St. Louis. When the fleet was ready to sail on April 11, the regiment could muster but little more than six hundred, rank and file.
The world knows how active was the grand campaign actually begun by the disembarking of the army at Milliken's Bend on the 14th of April, till after the assault on the 22d of May, and how hard were the duties of the investing army till the campaign was crowned with complete success on the tth of July. The march, in Louisiana, from the point of debarking
to a place named Perkins' Landing, was made difficult and laborious by reason of the high waters. Bridges had to be built, corduroy roads made for the passage of trains. Here the army embarked on transports and barges, and proceeded on its way down the river to a point about four miles above Grand Gulf, and which is well named llard Times, it having the appearance of being able to maintain a very poor family in a very poor way during a favorable season. Here the army, without disembarking, witnessed the cannonading between the gun-boats and the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf. The batteries could not all be silenced. The army, then disembarked, marched across to the levee below Grand Gulf, where the transports reached them, having run the batteries successfully. The Battle of Port Gibson, or Thompson's Hill, as it is sometimes called, and with more geo- graphical accuracy, was fought and won very soon after the Thirteenth Corps land- ed at Bruinsburg. In this engagement, the Twenty-fourth was almost all the time supporting artillery. Its loss was slight -six wounded, one mortally.
From this time until the battle of Champion Hills, our regiment did much marching, skirmishing, and foraging, but was not engaged at Raymond or at Jack- Son. On the 2d of May, the column marched into the beautiful town of l'ort Gibson, and bivouacked in the streets. The beauty and fashion of this place had made great preparations for a grand bali in honor of the victory over our fleet at Grand Gulf. The Battle of Port Gibson had altogether changed the programme. Many of our troops partook of the viands
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which had been prepared for guests of another sort. Here the. column halted three days. The country roundabout Port Gibson is one of the richest cotton-grow- ing regions of Mississippi. The white inhabitants were wealthy, cultivated after the Southern fashion, and aristocratic according to Southern notions. The war had not hitherto been carried into their door-yards. Their dwellings were magnifi- cent mansions. They had fine carriages and blooded horses. Many of them had blooded negroes, too, for coachmen. They fared sumptuously every day. Thus were they living till our troops landed, when the most of the wealthy planters suddenly decamped Our foraging parties met with all the embarrassment of riches. They would return, loaded down with supplies -beef, bacon, pork, poultry, vegetables. One might see gorgeous fami y carriages coming into l'ort Gibson from all direc- tions, filled with geese, ducks, and chick- ens, or coming from the mills, laden with great bags of meal. Yet no man's prop- erty was destroyed, or even taken for the use of the army, without there being first obtained evidence of his disloyalty to the Union, which evidence very often consist- ed of the fact that he had run away from the Union army. No houses were burned, no cotton was destroyed. The Union troops simply did what the planters had done before them. They fared sumptuous- ly every day. Having remained here long enough to get together a large quantity of supplies, the column moved on the 6th to Rocky Springs. On the next day, it moved to Big Sandy Creek, and was there reviewed by General Grant. On the 10th
it moved still farther northward, halting near Cayuga. IIere the grand army first came together, and marched forward in an unbroken line of several miles extent, making a grand sight. McClernand's Corps was on the left. On the morning of the 12th, his advance Division being that of General Hovey, to which the Twenty- fourth belonged, moved to Fourteen Mile Creek, in the direction of Edwards' Depot. Here he had a sharp skirmish with the enemy, and deployed his men in line of battle. The main rebel army from Vicks- burg, twenty-five thousand strong, as re. ported, was drawn up two or three miles in advance. Meantime, while Ilovey was here amusing the enemy, McPherson whipped the rebel force at Raymond. lIovey then withdrew, and taking a new road just made by the pioneers, passed through Raymond on the day after the bat- tle,and reached Clinton on the 14th. On the next morning the Thirteenth Corps turned about, and marching westward, reached Bolton Depot in the evening.
In the battle of Champion Hills, fought on the 16th, and which was the most severe engagement of the campaign except the assault of Vicksburg itself, Hovey's Divis- ion bore the brunt of the contest for hours, fighting with a valor and obstinacy which conferred eternal honor upon the troops. The Twenty-fourth Iowa was second to no regiment in splendid fighting on this bloody field. Not an officer or a man engaged but did his duty meritori- ously, yea, with special gallantry. At one time in the fight the regiment advanced, unsupported, to charge a battery of five guns whose grape and canister were
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