Lt. Col. 2d Regiment

The Washington Press learns that Capt. Cowles, of Co. H, 2nd Regiment, from Washington county, has been elected Lieutenant-Colonel of that regiment.  Capts. Huston and Littler, of Companies A and B, are the only Captains now left who held that position in the 2d regiment when it was first organized.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 1