Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, March 13, 1864

The Eleventh and the Fifteenth Iowa, together with the Twelfth Wisconsin, all veterans, went aboard the "Continental" this afternoon and about dark left for the North. I could not go with my regiment, as I have not yet been relieved from guard duty at the roundhouse.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 174

From Leavenworth

LEAVENWORTH, May 17.

Gen. Blunt has issued marching orders to the New Mexican expedition.  It consists of the Kansas 1st, 2d and 7th, and the Wisconsin 12th and 13th regiments.  It is commanded by Gen. R. B. Mitchell, and is in every respect a splendid brigade.  It is said that Col. Barstow, of the Wisconsin 3rd Cavalry, is to be made Provost Marshal General of the State.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 1

From Kansas

LEAVENWORTH, May 17. – Gen. Blunt has issued marching orders to the New Mexican Expedition.  It consists of the Kansas 1st, 2d and 7th, and the Wisconsin 12th and 13th.  It is commanded by General R. B. Mitchell and is in every respect a splendid Brigade.

It is said Col. Barstow, of the Wisconsin 3rd Cavalry is to be made Provost Marshall General of the State.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4