The ten companies assigned to this regiment were ordered into quarters by Governor Kirkwood on dates ranging from June 24 to July 3, 1861. T...

ABOARD STEAMER CITY OF ALTON, Mississippi River, April 13th. EDITOR GAZETTE:– Yesterday at noon the 2d cavalry received orders to be ready t...

SIXTEENTH INFANTRY. Alexander Chambers is thirty-two years of age, and a native of the State of New York. I know little more of his history ...

THIRD COLONEL, TENTH INFANTRY. Paris P. Henderson was born at Liberty, Union county, Indiana, on the 3d day of January, 1825. He was educate...

SECOND COLONEL, TENTH INFANTRY. William E. Small, the successor of Nicholas Perczel to the colonelcy of the 10th Iowa Infantry, is a native ...

THIRD COLONEL, FIFTH INFANTRY. Jabez Banbury is a native of England, and was born in the year 1831; but, removing to this country when quite...

SECOND COLONEL, FIFTH INFANTRY. Charles Leopold Matthies was the first man in the State of Iowa, and in the United States, to tender a milit...