The Hawkeye State, Northern Line steamer, arrived yesterday
afternoon from the North, having on board the Fifth Minnesota Regiment, or at
least seven companies of it, which are all that will go down at present. The remainder are left to garrison Forts
Ridgely, Ripley, and Abercrombie. The
regiment disembarked above the bridge and preceded by their brass band, marched
to the steamboat landing. Their officers
are: Colonel R. Von Bergersrode; Lt. Colonel L. J. Hubbard; Major W. B. Gere;
Quartermaster W. B. McGrorty; Adjutant A. R. French; Surgeons F. B. Etheridge
and B. Kennedy. There was a very large
admixture of Germans in the regiment, one or two companies being composed
entirely of them. The regiment
re-embarked on the Hawkeye, and proceeded down the river. They go to Pittsburg.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 1
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