Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Curtis Horse

This splendid body of cavalry, numbering 1,200 men nearly all of whom are effective, are hereafter to be considered an Iowa regiment.  Adjutant General Baker has received intelligence to this effect from the Department at Washington, and is ordered to commission officers to fill whatever vacancies may occur.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1

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