Tuesday, November 9, 2010

List of Wounded of the 2d Iowa Cavalry at the Engagement of Gen. Pope’s Division, near Corinth, nearly all on the Steamer D. A. January



Name
Company
Condition
County
W H Butts
F
thigh
Wayne
John S Bush
B
breast & should’r
Marshall
G T Height
G
arm and side
Cedar
L J Parkers
F
breast
Dallas
A Westick
B
hip
Morgan
Derwin Downs
K
leg
Des Moines
Anderson Henderly
G
back
Muscatine
Capt. Egbert
C
thigh
Scott
J B Armstrong

do
do
Wm Gordon

foot amputated
Fulton
L Waterman

hip
Muscatine
Capt. Lundy

head
do
James Taylor

shoulder
Scott
James Slaughter

hand and leg
Des Moines
E E Biggs

sick of dropsy
Webster City


8 killed, 40 wounded, 3 missing.  I cannot get their names.

The report about the prisoners being taken I think false.  I learn there were no other Iowa troops in the engagement.

Yours, &c.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

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