Thursday, April 29, 2010

14th Iowa Infantry Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA
TO HER
14TH INFANTRY.
TUTTLE’S (1ST) BRIGADE
W. H. L. WALLACE’S (2D) DIVISION.
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE



IOWA
14TH REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS
COMMANDED BY COL. W. T. SHAW
THIS REGIMENT (SEVEN COMPANIES), HELD THIS POSITION AGAINST REPEATED ATTACKS FROM 9 A.M. UNTIL 4 P.M., APRIL 6, 1862.

IN ATTEMPTING TO FOLLOW THE REST OF THE BRIGADE, WHICH WAS BEING WITHDRAWN, IT BECAME HOTLY ENGAGED ABOUT 200 YARDS EAST OF THIS POSITION. REPULSING THIS ATTACK IT CONTINUED TO RETIRE TOWARDS THE HAMBURG ROAD, FIGHTING HEAVILY. REACHING THE CAMP OF THE 32D ILLINOIS INFANTRY IT FOUND ITSELF ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY THE JUNCTION OF THE CONFEDERATE RIGHT AND LEFT WINGS. IT WAS CAPTURED ABOUT 6 P.M.

PRESENT FOR DUTY, INCLUDING MUSICIANS, TEAMSTERS, ETC., 442.

ITS LOSS WAS, KILLED 8 MEN; WOUNDED 2 OFFICERS AND 37 MEN; CAPTURED 15 OFFICERS AND 211 MEN; TOTAL 273.

OF THE WOUNDED, 5 DIED OF THEIR WOUNDS; OF THE CAPTURED, 15 DIED IN PRISON.


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1 comment:

Damekexote said...

My great-great-great Uncle Simon Eccles was one of those that was captured that day and later died in prison camp.