10. Ill cav. up. 2 co. of 1st Iowa from Davidsons comd who is 80 miles out in this A. M. Troop reported up White river in transport SOU...

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in November 25, 1861. Moved to Quincy, Ill., December 20, thence to Benton Barracks, Mo., March...

The ten companies which were assigned to the Twentieth Regiment were ordered into quarters by the Governor on dates ranging from July, 15 to...

FOURTH COLONEL, FIRST CAVALRY. William Thompson was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in about the year 1814. He came to Iowa while it was ...

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, NINTH INFANTRY. Francis J. Herron is Iowa's youngest major-general, and the second one of that rank appointed from t...