WOUNDED AT IUKA
This soldier was born in New York about 1832; was graduated
from the Military Academy in 1853, and was made second lieutenant of infantry.
He served in garrison and frontier duty and in the Seminole War. On the 24th of
March, 1862, he was transferred from captain in the Eighteenth United States
Infantry to colonel of the Sixteenth Iowa Volunteers. He served in the
Tennessee and Mississippi campaigns, and was twice wounded at Shiloh. He was in
at the siege of Corinth; was severely wounded at Iuka; took part in the
Vicksburg campaign, and on the 14th of February, 1864, was brevetted
brigadier-general. He was judge advocate of the District of Nebraska from
January to June, 1866, and, for a year thereafter, in the Department of the
Platte. He was then transferred to the Twenty-seventh United States Infantry,
and in March, 1867, became a major in the Twenty-second United States Infantry.
SOURCE: Johnson Brigham,
Iowa: Its History and Its Foremost
Citizens, Volume 1, p. 418
