This regiment, although it has seen hard service, being the first of the three years volunteers in the field, has never been under fire until the three days fight at Donelson. We know that its officers and men have been exceedingly anxious to face the rebels in battle. In this wish they have now been gratified, and right worthily have they sustained the good name of our State and the high character awarded to our Iowa boys for valor at Wilson’s Creek, Blue Milles and Belmont. Col. Tuttle and his Regiment led the bayonet charge which dislodged the rebels from their entrenchments, and planted their flag over the captured works. All honor to Col. Tuttle and the gallant Iowa Second – to the living, the wounded and the dead. A grateful people will never forget either.
The officers of this regiment are James M. Tuttle, James Baker, Lieut. Colonel, Norton P. Chipman, Major, Thos. J. McKinney, Adjutant, Captains Houston of Keokuk, Littler and Brewster of Davenport, Dykeman of Des Moines, McCulloch of Fairfield, Wilkin of Van Buren County, Weaver of Bloomfield, Cowles of Washington, Cox of Lyons, and Cloutman of Ottumwa.
Gov. Kirkwood, if he has not already done so should take such steps as will insure the best possible care of the wounded of this and other Iowa regiments at Fort Donelson.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 2
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