4th Division, Army of the Tennessee Historic Plaque: Cloud Field, Shiloh National Military Park

U. S.

FOURTH DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,

BRIG. GEN. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT.

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1st Brigade,	Col. Nelson G. Williams, 3d Iowa, (W’d.)
	Col. Isaac C. Pugh, 41st Illinois.
2d Brigade,	Col. James C. Veatch 25th Indiana.
3d Brigade,	Brig. Gen. Jacob G. Lauman.
Mann’s Battery, (“C” 1st Mo. Lt. Arty.,) Lieut. Edward Brotzmann.
2nd Battery, Mich. Lt. Arty., Lieut. Cuthbert W. Laing.
13th Battery, Ohio Lt. Arty., Capt. John S. Myers.
1st and 2d Battalions, 5th Ohio Cavalry, Col. W. H. H. Taylor.

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This Division encamped here March 18th 1862; the 1st Brigade in front of Division headquarters; the 2d half a mile north; the 3d east along the Brown’s Ferry Road.

Sunday morning, April 6th, 1862, the 2d Brigade reinforced Gen. McClernand, near his headquarters, and served with him until 5 o’clock when it rejoined it’s division.  The 1st and 3d Brigades formed line of battle in the Peach Orchard and were engaged in that vicinity until 4 p.m. when they retired to the right of the siege guns.

On Monday the Division was engaged on the left of the Army of the Tennessee until about noon when its 2d Brigade moved to the left of Gen. McCook’s Division and was engaged in Review Field.

The Division had present for duty, of all arms, officers and men, 7825.

It lost 317 killed; 1441 wounded; 111 missing; total 1869.

41st – 48th Iowa Infantry Regiments

Attempts had been made to organize the Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-third regiments of infantry, but were unsuccessful. In the summer of 1864 the governors of the western states proposed to the general government to send to the field a number of regiments enlisted for a short term to relieve the older regiments doing garrison duty and stationed on the western frontier. The proposition was accepted and Governor Stone, of Iowa, issued a proclamation calling on the people of the state for volunteers for 100 days. In response 3,900 men volunteered and were organized into the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh regiments and the Forty-eighth battalion of infantry.

The Forty-fourth was organized of companies raised in the counties of Dubuque, Muscatine, Linn, Butler, Clinton, Marshall, Boone, Polk, Dallas and Scott. The field officers were S. H. Henderson, colonel; Henry Egbert, lieutenant-colonel; Josiah Hopkins, major. It was mustered into service in June, 1864, at Davenport, and had 867 men.

The Forty-fifth was raised largely in the counties of Henry, Washington, Van Buren, Lee, Davis and Des Moines, and numbered 912 men. It was mustered in at Keokuk, May 25, 1864, with A. H. Bereman, colonel; Samuel A. Moore, lieutenant-colonel; and James B. Hope, major.

The Forty-sixth was enlisted chiefly in the counties of Dubuque, Poweshiek, Dallas, Guthrie, Fayette, Taylor, Linn, Delaware, Winneshiek, Appanoose, Monroe, Wayne, Clarke, Cedar and Lucas, and numbered 892 men. Its field officers were David B. Henderson, colonel; L. D. Durbin, lieutenant-colonel; and George L. Torbert, major; and it was mustered into service in June, 1864.

The Forty-seventh was made up from companies raised largely in the counties of Marion, Appanoose, Benton, Wapello, Buchanan, Madison, Polk, Johnson, Keokuk and Mahaska, and numbered 884 men. Its field officers were James P. Sanford, colonel; John Williams, lieutenant-colonel; and George J. North, major. It was mustered into service in June, 1864.

The Forty-eighth battalion numbered 346 men, raised mostly in the counties of Warren, Jasper, Decatur and Des Moines, and were mustered into the service at Davenport, in July, 1864, with O. H. P. Scott, colonel.

The Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth regiments were sent to Tennessee, to guard railroads and perform garrison duty, while the Forty-seventh was sent to Helena, where it suffered greatly from sickness. The Forty-eighth battalion guarded rebel prisoners on Rock Island.

The services of the hundred-days-men were acknowledged in a proclamation issued by President Lincoln in October, and thanks were tendered to the states which furnished them.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Gue, Biographies And Portraits Of The Progressive Men Of Iowa, Volume 1, p. 119

Major Samuel D. Brodtbeck

Major Samuel D. Brodtbeck, was born in the city of Liestol, Switzerland, June 26, 1818. When only 12 years old he joined a company of sharpshooters, as trumpter, and served in a number of conflicts between his home district and Bale. In 1839 he entered the regular army of Switzerland and in 1842 distinguished himself in several engagements and was commissioned Captain. He came to the United States in 1851 and two years later settled in Dubuque, Iowa, where he was for several years deputy County Recorder. In 1856 he organized a Militia Company of which he was Captain. He was commissioned Major of Iowa Militia in summer of 1861, and placed in command of Camp Franklin, where the 9th Iowa was organized. When the 12th Iowa was being organized he was in command of Camp Union, and when the regiment was mustered in received his commission as Major of the regiment. He was present with his regiment at Benton Barracks, Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. At Shiloh he was suffering from diarrhea and rheumatism contracted at Donelson and was unable for duty. He had tendered his resignation before the battle of Shiloh and it was accepted April 7, 1862. He returned to Dubuque and as soon as health was partially recovered, was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel on the Governor's Staff, and again placed in command of Camp Franklin, and organized and drilled the 21st, 27th, 23d, 38th, and 43d Iowa regiments. Failing health compelled him to abandon active labor in the spring of 1863. In 1867 he made an extended visit to his mother in Switzerland in the hope of regaining his health. He returned to this country and attended regimental reunion in 1884, and soon after removed to California where he died January 21, [1897].

SOURCE: David W. Reed, Campaigns and battles of the Twelfth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 248

43rd Iowa Infantry

Failed to complete organization.

SOURCE: Dyer , Frederick H., A Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1181