Battle of Sugar Creek

The 4^th regiment Iowa Infantry had only about 500 men in the battle at Sugar Creek, or Pea Ridge, as it is sometimes called, in Arkansas.  Of this number 180 were killed and wounded.  Col. Dodge, of this regiment had three horses shot under him.  He was slightly wounded.  The 9^th Iowa regiment and 1^st and 2d Iowa batteries lost over 2 hundred killed and wounded.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 1