Official List of the Killed and Wounded of the Third Iowa Cavalry at Pea Ridge, Ark.

HEADQUARTERS OF THIRD IWOA CAVALRY,

PEA RIDGE ARK., March 11, 1862.

Report of Killed, Mission and Wounded of Third Iowa Cavalry, Engaged near Leesville, in Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7, 1862:

Lieut. Col. Henry H. Trimble, badly wounded in face, not mortally.

Battalion Sergt. Major, George M. Johnson, very slightly wounded.

Regimental Bugler, James M. Cobb, sabre cut on right arm, slight.

KILLED.

Sergt. W. O. Crawford, co. A.

Corp. W. J. Elrod, co. A.

James Dodd, co. A.

Carroll Foster, co. A, scalped.

Elisha Ham, co. A, scalped.

James S. Letner, co. A.

Madison Townsend, co. A.

Elijah Ward, co. A.

Sergt. George H. Anderson, co. B.

David Carroll, co. B., scalped

William Cowles, co. B.

Casper French, co. B, scalped.

Sergt. R. H. Millard, co. C, scalped.

Peter J. Stevens, co. C.

Sergt.John R. Montgomery, co. D.

John Campbell, co. D.

John W. Clark, co. D.

Thomas P. Gray, co. D.

James F. Mercer, co. D, scalped.

Spencer Minor, co. D, scalped.

John Sellers, co. D.

Ephraim Vorhies, co. D.

Henry Brown, co. D, scalped.

A. S. Mansfield, co. M.

WOUNDED.

Sergt. Amos Chambers, co. A, slightly.

Corp. Cyrus Cunningham, co. A, in neck.

Mathias Wertz, co. A, in arm.

Milton Townsend, co. A, in arm.

Levy Seaton, co. C, slightly in chin.

F. M. Bush, co. D.

S. A. Dysett, co D.

W. E. Cox, co. D.

John W. Howard, co. M.

Wm. Cavin, co. M.

Jeff Miller, co. M.

R. M. Nixon, co. M.

Burr Brown, co M.

G. S. Bowman, co. M.

MISSING.

Orderly Sergeant Daniel Bradberry, co. A.

Andrew Marvin, co. A.

Charles J. Bertin, co. D.

John Lawson, co. D.

James J. Mason, co. D.

John S. Wolf, co. d.

H. H. Ross, co. M.

Henry A. Cowles, co. M.

Breson Scott, co. M, prisoner.

Recapitulation – Killed, 24; missing, 9; wounded, 17; total 50.

The killed were buried on Saturday, after the battle was over and the pursuit ended.  Hearing it reported by my men that several of the killed had been found scalped I had the dead examined, and on personal examination of the bodies I found that it was a fact beyond dispute, that eight of the killed of my command had been scalped – and the bodies of many of them showed an unmistakeable [sic] evidence that the men had been murdered after they were wounded; that first having fallen in the charge from bullet wounds, that they afterwards were pierced through the heart and neck, by a savage and relentless foe.  I then had the bodies reburied, each in a separate grave properly marked.

By order of

CYRUS BUSSEY, Col.

J. N. NOBLE, adjutant.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 2