STATE OF Iowa, ADJUTANT GENERAL’s Office
February 19th, 1862.
HON. Rush CLARK,
Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
SIR: I have just received the following despatch from Chicago:
CHICAGO, Feb. 19th,
1862.
To ADJUTANT GENERAL
BAKER:
The Second Iowa acquitted themselves with great bravery at
Fort Donelson — led the best and most successful charge —have suffered terribly.
Besides the Second, there were the Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and
Fourteenth Iowa Infantry in the fight. The friends of Cols. Tuttle, Lauman,
Perczel, Hare, Wood and Shaw, will rejoice that the glory of the fight and the
victory belongs, and is attached to their names, and to the brave officers and
soldiers under them. Another glorious page has been recorded in the history of
Iowa by her gallant troops in the field.
With great respect, I have the honor to rejoice in the glory
of Iowa, and the triumph of Union men.
N. B. BAKER.
Adjutant General of
Iowa.
SOURCES: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and
Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 207; Iowa House of
Representatives, Journal of the House of the Ninth General Assembly of
the State of Iowa, p. 342
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