Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, October 29, 1861


Several new companies of the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry were sworn into the United States service today.  Marcellus M. Crocker of Des Moines is to be their colonel.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 15

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