The Iowa Monuments At Shiloh National Military Park

Iowa State Memorial Monument

• Iowa State Memorial

THE REGIMENTAL MONUMENTS.

The eleven regimental monuments are uniform in size and design, differing only in the inscriptions. They, like the state monument, are built of Barre, Vermont, granite and United States standard bronze. A monument is erected to each Iowa regiment engaged in the battle and stands at the point where the regiment fought the longest and suffered its greatest loss. Upon a bronze tablet set in the granite is described the part taken by the regiment in the battle. The commission prepared the design for these monuments. The contract for their erection was let to P. N. Peterson Granite Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, for eighteen thousand and fifty-one dollars.  SOURCE: Alonzo Abernathy, Editor, Dedication of Monuments Erected By The State Of Iowa, p. 291

• 2nd Iowa Infantry
• 3rd Iowa Infantry
• 6th Iowa Infantry
• 7th Iowa Infantry
• 8th Iowa Infantry
• 11th Iowa Infantry
• 12th Iowa Infantry
• 13th Iowa Infantry
• 14th Iowa Infantry
• 15th Iowa Infantry
• 16th Iowa Infantry

HEADQUARTERS MONUMENTS.
Four Iowa colonels commanded three brigades during the Battle of Shiloh.

• Abraham M. Hare, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Tennessee
• Succeeded by Marcellus M. Crocker.
• James M. Tuttle, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of the Tennessee
• John A. McDowell, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee

Losses In The Iowa Regiments Engaged At Shiloh

Regiment	Killed	Wounded	Total Killed and Wounded	Captured and Missing	Total
Second	8	60	68	4	72
Third	23	134	157	30	187
Sixth	52	94	146	37	183
Seventh	10	17	27	6	33
Eighth	34	112	146	370	516
Eleventh	33	160	193	1	194
Twelfth	24	103	127	320	447
Thirteenth	20	139	159	3	162
Fourteenth	9	38	47	226	273
Fifteenth	21	156	177	8	185
Sixteenth	17	101	118	13	131

SOURCES: Samuel H. M. Byers, Iowa In War Times, p. 146

Wallace G. Agnew

WALLACE G. AGNEW, one of the enterprising and representative citizens of Osceola, is a native of Ohio, born in Guernsey County, July 10, 1839, the youngest of a family of eight children of John and Mary (White) Agnew, natives of the Keystone State. When he was thirteen years old he left Ohio and came to Iowa, where he passed his youth and attained manhood. He received a good education, attending in Ohio the common schools of his native county. He learned the marble-cutter’s trade, at which he worked until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion.   In May, 1861, he enrolled at Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa; was mustered into the United States service June 10, 1861, at Keokuk, Iowa, in Company B, Third Regiment, Iowa Infantry, for three years’ service. He participated in the battles at Blue Mills, Missouri, and Shiloh, losing his right arm at the latter battle. He was discharged in July, 1862, and returned to Iowa. In November, 1863, he was appointed Deputy United States Marshal of the Fourth District, and was stationed at Grinnell, at that time the terminus of the Rock Island Railroad, and served nineteen months, when the post at Grinnell was abandoned. He was then employed as traveling salesman for a marble company until 1867, when he located in Osceola, Clarke County, and embarked in the grocery business in company with E. Atkins. In 1869 he was appointed postmaster at Osceola, a position he filled acceptably until July, 1885. In the fall of 1885 he was nominated and elected to represent Clarke County in the State legislature, and thus far has served his constituents faithfully.  Mr. Agnew was married in 1867 to Miss Nellie Inglefield, daughter of E. Inglefield, of Marion County, Iowa. They have a family of three sons and three daughters.

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 400-3

James A. Woods

WOODS, JAMES A. — Farmer, section 16, P. O. Tyner. Was born in Ross county, Ohio, February 2, 1806, and was raised -there till he reached his majority, at farming as an occupation, which he has since followed as his principal vocation. In 1830 he emigrated to the then Territory of Michigan and remained for three years and then came on to Elkhart, Indiana, and from there came to this county in 1854, purchasing 160 acres, which now constitutes a part of his present homestead, from Daniel Underhill. He has now 193 acres in a well-improved farm. Since a resident of the township he has held the office of justice of the peace for several terms, township trustee and various other minor offices. He was married in Ohio, September 13, 1828, to Miss Annie Ritchart, of Ross county, Ohio. They have a family of three sons and three daughters living: Elizabeth, Rachel, James A., Lucy, Joseph H. and Thomas. His father was from Ireland and his mother was a native of Virginia, but of Welsh and English origin. He had two sons in the late war: J. L., who enlisted in company E, Third Iowa, in April, 1861, and was killed at the battle of Shiloh; Joseph H. enlisted in company K, Sixteenth Iowa, February 22, 1862, and served till the close of the war.

SOURCE: Union Historical Company, The History of Polk County, Iowa, p. 1021

Weekly Report of the Morality . . .

. . . among Iowa Soldiers in the Hospitals and Camps in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo.

Feb. 19, Andrew Vananfrink, Co. G, 3d Inf.

Feb. 23, James M. Potter, Co. E, 1st Cav.

Feb. 24, Alonzo Conaway, Co. I, 2nd Cav.

Feb. 25, Wm. Piersall, Co. H, 2nd Cav.

Feb. 27, Richard B. Truby, Co. K, 5th Inf.

Feb. 27, Samuel Shinnemann, Co. D, 12th Inf.

Feb. 27, Alphonzo Clark, Co. F, 12th Inf.

Feb. 28, Washington Bickford, Co. F, 3d Cav.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2

John Stockham

John Stockham of the Algona vicinity enlisted early in the war. His friends never have been able to learn to what regiment he belonged. Ambrose A. Call's Pioneer Press, in its issue of May 3, 1862, says that he joined the Sixteenth Iowa Infantry and that the Press had learned that he had been wounded at Shiloh, and later that he had died at Cincinnati. Stockham's name does not appear in the roster of the Sixteenth regiment, neither has it been discovered in the roster of any other Iowa regiment after the most painstaking research with that object in view. It is not probable that this county ever received credit for his enlistment.

SOURCE: Benjamin F. Reed, History of Kossuth County, Iowa, Volume 1, p. 185.

NOTE: The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System shows a John C. Stockham, Corporal, Company I, 3rd Iowa Infantry.  Of this John Stockham the Roster And Record Of Iowa Soldiers In The War Of The Rebellion, Volume 1, p. 384 names him as “Stockan, John. Age 22. Residence Waterloo, nativity Ohio. Enlisted May 20, 1861. Mustered June 10, 1861. Wounded slightly in back April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tenn. Promoted Eighth Corporal Sept. 15, 1863. Mustered out June 18, 1864, Davenport, Iowa, expiration of term of service.”  The roster of the 16th Iowa Infantry found in the Roster And Record Of Iowa Soldiers In The War Of The Rebellion, Volume 2, does not list anyone with the last name of Stockham, Stockan or anything resembling it with a first name of John.  There is no pension index card at Fold3.com for John Stockham/Stockan, or for any Iowa troops with the surnames of either Stockham or Stockan.

Per Beverly Pettys’ gedcom file on ancestry.com John Stockham was the son of William W. & Elizabeth (Duncan) Stockham of Scioto County, Ohio.  He was born about 1838 in Ohio and resided with them in the 1850 Federal Census in Adams, Hartford County, Indiana.  Sometime between 1850 and 1856 John Stockham removed to Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa where he was enumerated in the 1856 State Census of Iowa, an 18 year old laborer in the household of A. McHugh.  The 1860 Federal Census for East Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa lists him as a 22 year old law student residing with the family of Arthur McHugh (a merchant’s clerk).  It is probable and very likely that John Stockham named above is the same individual in the 3rd Iowa Infantry as all the facts line up with the exception of his death in Cincinatti prior to May 3, 1862.  As of this writing I do not have a casualty list of the 3rd Iowa from the Battle of Shiloh, nor have I come across his name on any hospital lists.  Since the History of Kossuth County, Iowa (published in 1913) seems to rely on two sources: the first, John Stockham’s unreliable friends, who were not able to identify to which regiment he belonged.  Newspaper casualty lists are laden with errors and often erroneous reports of a soldier’s death due to wounds.  Which calls into question the reliability of the Kossuth County History’s second source, the May 3rd issue of Ambrose A. Call's Pioneer Press, not even a month after the battle) that reported of John Stockham’s wounding at Shiloh, and his death at Cincinnati. 

13th Iowa Infantry Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA

TO HER

13^TH INFANTRY.

HARE’S (1^ST) BRIGADE.

McCLERNAND’S (1^ST) DIVISION.

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

IOWA

13^TH REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS

COMMANDED BY COL. MARCELLUS M. CROCKER

This regiment held this position from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., April 6, 1862. Retired under orders about two hundred yards, and maintained its position until about 2.30 p.m.  Moved to a point near the camp of 15th Illinois Infantry where it repelled a charge of Wharton's Cavalry.

Under orders, moved to a point near, and west of, the camp of 3rd Iowa Infantry, where it fought its severest engagement, and remained until about 4.30 p.m., when both flanks being turned, it fell back, by order, to the Corinth road and joined a portion of Colonel Tuttle's command; advanced towards the enemy; then retired to the last line of the day, its right in front of the camp of the 14th Iowa.

Was in reserve line on the 7th with slight loss.

Present for duty, including officers, musicians, teamsters, etc., 760.

Its loss was, 1 officer and 23 men killed; 1 officer and 15 men died of wounds; 8 officers and 118 men wounded; 5 men missing; total, 171.

See Also:

• Dedication Exercises at the 13th Iowa Regimental Monument
• The Iowa Monuments At Shiloh National Military Park
• Official Report of Marcellus M. Crocker
• Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Marcellus M. Crocker

3rd Iowa Infantry Monument: The Peach Orchard, Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA

TO HER 3D INFANTRY,

WILLIAMS’ (1ST) BRIGADE, HURLBUT’S (4TH) DIVISION

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

IOWA

3D REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS

COMMANDED BY MAJOR WILLIAM M. STONE, (CAPTURED)

LIEUT. GEORGE W. CROSLEY

This regiment went into action Sunday, April 6, 1862, on the south side of this field at about 9 A. M.  It soon feLl back to this place which it held against repeated attacks until 2 P. M., when it fell back 200 yards, and one hour later withdrew to the Wicker Field.  Here it was engaged until 4 P. M., when it retired, fighting to its camp, where it was nearly surrounded, but broke through the ranks of the enemy and jointed the command of Col. M. M. Crocker in front of the 2^nd Iowa camp, where it bivouacked Sunday night.

On Monday it was engaged under Lieut. Crosley, he being senior officer for duty.

Present for duty including officers, musicians, teamsters, etc., 560.

Its loss was 23 men killed; 6 officers and 128 men wounded; 3 officers and 27 men missing: total, 187


See Also:

• Dedication Exercises at the Third Iowa Regimental Monument
• The Iowa Monuments at Shiloh National Military Park
• Official Report of Capt. Matthew M. Trumbull
• Iowa Colonels and Regiments: William Milo Stone

The Third Infantry.

This regiment numbered about 970 men when mustered into the service at Keokuk on the 10th of June, 1861. The field officers were Nelson G. Williams, colonel; John Scott, lieutenant-colonel, and Wm. M. Stone, major. The regiment left for the seat of war on the 29th, landing at Hannibal, Mo. It did service for several months in eastern Missouri, sometimes divided and again united. On the 17th of September Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, with about 500 of the Third Iowa, seventy home guards and a squad of artillery with a six-pound gun, attacked a rebel army of about 4,000, under General Atchison, near Blue Mills Landing. The rebels were concealed in a dense woods and their numbers unknown. There was a short, sharp fight when Scott's little army was driven back by overwhelming numbers and with heavy loss, amounting to 118 men. In March the regiment joined Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing and fought bravely at Shiloh on the 6th and 7th of April. Colonel Williams was disabled, Major Stone was taken prisoner, and the loss in killed, wounded and captured was very heavy. In October, under Lieut.-Col. M. M. Trumbull, the Third fought bravely at the battle of the Hatchie. Colonel Williams resigned in November, 1862; Scott had resigned in June, and Trumbull resigned in November, and Aaron Brown now became colonel; James Tullis, lieutenant-colonel, and Geo. W. Crosley, major. The regiment did good service under General Grant at the siege and capture of Vicksburg. It was in the battle before Jackson, July 12th, fought bravely and suffered heavy loss. The regiment was divided in 1864, and a portion of it, under Tullis, joined the Red River expedition under General Banks.

The two parts of the regiment were never reunited again and in the battle of Atlanta the last battalion of the gallant regiment fought itself out of existence. In its last desperate conflict on that bloody field Colonel Abernethy, its commander, was slain; Captain Griffith, the brave old color-bearer in many battles, fell mortally wounded, while the handful of undaunted men gathered around the flag, amid a shower of shot and shell, fighting madly in its defense. As the little remnant of the gallant old regiment was overwhelmed by numbers, before surrendering they tore the old flag in a dozen pieces, concealed them in their clothing, so that it was never captured by the enemy. Thus, amid the thunder of artillery, the screeching of shells, the rattle of musketry and the wild shouts of men in their death struggle, the last remnant of the Third Iowa passed out of existence.

SOURCE, Benjamin F. Gue, Biographies And Portraits Of The Progressive Men Of Iowa, Volume 1, p. 91-2

Iowa Items

The Muscatine Journal says that Mr. Schwarz, a resident of that city, recently stopped at a house in Appanoose Co., and while there, two or three men in federal uniform came in, and asked Mr. Schwarz to lend them a horse for the next day.  Mr. S. couldn’t see the propriety of doing so, as the fellows had horses of their own.  They then tried to bully him into consenting to it, but failing in that they left swearing vengeance.  Mr. Schwarz says that a great deal of plundering is going on in this manner on the border.  Active measures should be taken by the authorities to ferret out and punish the perpetrators.

THIRD REGIMENT. – Some four or five Captains of this regiment have recently resigned – reason given – the continual bickering among the field officers.

Hardin County has been turning out some natural curiosities lately, a cow up there recently gave birth to a double-headed calf, each head complete except in the ears, at which point the two heads united.  Both cow and calf are dead.  Another calf was born with his hoofs immediately below the knee-joints, while in all other respects the animal is perfect; and it is alive and doing well.

A gentleman hailing from the Buckeye State was diddled out of fifty dollars recently on the Burlington and Missouri R. R. R.  He had taken his seat in the cars, the grain being about to start, when a stranger, having ten hundred dollar treasury notes in his hand, borrowed fifty dollars of him to make change, wishing to pay a bill just presented.  The stranger and the fifty dollars went off together and our Buckeye friend has not been able to find either.

The House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring the Board of Supervisors to publish the laws enacted by the legislature in at least one paper in each county – that having the largest circulation.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 2

A Southern Damsel

A correspondent of the Dubuque Times tells how a lieutenant of the Third Iowa had his “heart-strings” lacerated lately in a town on the Tennessee river.  He says:

At this town of Patriot, an officer of the Third, Lieut. Tidrick, while roaming about the streets, fell in with a pretty girl; and his natural gallantry, or more probably a desire to acquire information with regard to the country and its inhabitants, led him to cultivate the young lady’s acquaintance rather assiduously.  At the conclusion of their walk, when they had reached the paternal mansion, his new friend invited the Lieutenant to walk in, sit down and rest himself, which invitation was bashfully accepted.  During the conversation here, the young lady asked what was the destination of the army.  “New Orleans,” was the answer.  “Oh!” said she, “I have some friends there, and I hope you will spare them, for my sake, and treat them as well as we have been treated here.”  “Certainly,” replied the lieutenant, “but in order that they may know I have seen you, won’t you write your name on this card, that I may show it to them?”  “I would,” said the blushing maiden, “but – but I have never been to school, and I can’t write; but I guess I can spell it out for you.”

Her father is the owner of seventy negroes, and the chief dignitary hereabouts, and probably this young lady has been as well brought up as the average of them in this country.  This shock was too much for the Lieutenant, and his name is now enrolled on the sick list.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 2

Mortality of Iowa Soldiers

The following list comprises the names of Iowa volunteers who have died in the vicinity of St. Louis at the dates named.  For further information, apply to John A. Smithers, 113 Chesnut street, St. Louis:

Feb. 19 – Andrew Vananfrink, Company G, 3d Infantry.

Feb. 27 – Richard B. Truby, Co. K, 5^th Infantry.

Feb. 28 – Samuel Shinneman, Company D, 12^th Infantry.

Feb. 27 – Alphonso Clark, Company F, 12^th Infantry.

Feb. 23 – James M. Potter, Company E, 1^st Cavalry.

Feb. 24 – Alonzo Conaway, Company I, 2d Cavalry.

Feb. 25 – William Piersall, Company H, 2d Cavalry.

Feb. 28 – Washington Bickford, Company F, 3d Cavalry.

Feb. 28 – William J. Fairchild, Company D, 3d Cavalry.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 2

William W. Nelson, M. D.

WILLIAM W. NELSON, M. D., has for thirty years been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine in this community.  His home is in Birmingham.  He was born on November 30, 1834, in Wayne County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Wilson) Nelson.  His father was born in Mercer County, Pa., December 4, 1790, and was descended from Irish ancestry.  He Served in the War of 1812, and in Pennsylvania, he married Miss Elizabeth Wilson, who was born in Ireland, May 25, 1791, and who, in her childhood accompanied her parents to this country and located in Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage they removed in 1817, to Wayne County, Ohio, near Rowsburg, where Mr. Nelson engaged in farming until 1836, when he removed to Richland County, (now Ashland) and located on a farm near Savannah until 1845, when he traded his land in that locality for a tract in Washington Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, to which he then removed. He was a Whig, afterward an Abolitionist and in turn became a Republican. Both he and his wife were members of the Associate Presbyterian Church, but afterward joined the United Presbyterian. He died September 24, 1860, and Mrs. Nelson passed away on the 7th of October, 1858. In their family were nine children, of whom seven lived to be adults, while three are yet living — Hugh, a farmer of Van Buren County; Ann, widow of Joseph Dawson, of Washington County, Iowa, and the Doctor.

Our subject is the youngest of the family. Having attended the district schools, he was not content to consider his education then finished but through his own resources acquired the means by which he was enabled to attend Washington College for two years. His taste lay in the line of medical practice and in 1857, he went to Wooster, Ohio, where he read medicine with Drs. Day & Wilson. During the winter of 1858-9, he attended a course of lectures in the medical department of the Iowa State University at Keokuk, and the following year completed a course of study in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., where he graduated March 12, 1860, although he has continued a student up to the present time, keeping himself well informed on all matters pertaining to the profession, its discoveries and the advancement made in the science.

Soon after his graduation, Dr. Nelson was united in marriage on March 20, 1860, with Miss Almira Matthews, a native of Lawrence County, Pa., born July 22, 1839. Immediately after he returned with his bride to Van Buren County, locating in Pierceville, in the summer of 1860, where they began their domestic life. On the 19th of August, 1862, he was commissioned by Gov. Kirkwood as First Assistant Surgeon ,of the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, and mustered into service by Lieut. Charles J. Ball of the Thirteenth Infantry, United States mustering officer. September 14, 1862, at Keokuk. He joined his regiment at Iuka. Miss., but soon afterward was taken with malarial fever and lay in the general hospital at Corinth, Miss., some three weeks, suffering severely, and recovering, he then rejoined his regiment at Grand Junction, Tenn. In the spring of 1863, he was ordered to take charge of a smallpox hospital at Lake Province, La., by order of Gen. McPherson. After a month he was relieved and placed in charge of the Sixth Division Pioneer Corps, commanded by Capt. Davis, of the Thirty-second I1linois Infantry. Returning to his regiment in August, 1863, he had charge of the sick of the brigade when the regiments went on the march to Monroe, La. After a short sickness and an absence, on furlough, of twenty days, given by Gen. Grant at Vicksburg. he rejoined his regiment and had charge of two companies detached for duty at the arsenal near Vicksburg, and also had charge of a pioneer corps and engineer regiment commanded by Capt. John Wilson. He remained with the above command until the spring of 1864, when he was placed in charge of non-veterans and recruits of the Iowa Brigade, and had charge of this detachment until their respective commands joined them near Huntsville, Ala., when he was placed in charge of the Third Iowa Veteran Infantry, with which he remained until it was consolidated with the Second Veteran Infantry near Jones' Plantation, Ga., on Sherman's march to the sea. Thereafter, the Doctor rejoined his regiment and from December 22, 1864, until he was mustered out he was the only medical officer with the command. He participated in the battles of Corinth, Vicksburg, Atlanta, and Bentonsville [sic], and the Grand Review at Washington, D. C., May 24, 1865, and was mustered out with his regiment at Louisville, Ky., July 24, 1865, at the close of the war. In the fall of the same year, the Doctor located in Birmingham, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, with the exception of 1874, when with his family he visited the Pacific coast in the pursuit of health and returned the following year. He has a good record as a physician and surgeon, as is indicated by a liberal patronage. He holds the office of Secretary of the United States Pension Examining Board, of his county, is a Republican in politics and the owner of two hundred and twenty acres of improved land. Unto himself and wife were horn seven children of whom two died in infancy. Those living are as follows: Meldon W., a farmer of Lick Creek Township, Van Buren County; Nettie X.; Minnie A., wife of Allen B. Adams, of Selma; Audley E. and Mary L., who are students at Parsons College. The family holds a high position in the social world and the Doctor has won a like enviable rank in the medical fraternity. In religious sentiment the Doctor and his wife are independent, and anti-sectarian.

Mrs. Nelson's grandfather, Jacob Matthews, was born in Maryland, in 1775. His ancestors were of Alsace, France, or of German descent. He married Miss Mary Boyl, who was born in Ireland, and their family consisted of three children, one son and two daughters. At an early day they moved to Lawrence County, Pa., and located on a farm near Edenburg. He served in the War of 1812, and died at the age of eighty-four. His only son, Phillip Matthews, Mrs. Nelson's father, married Miss Nancy Book, of the same county. Their family consisted of ten children, two sons and eight daughters. One son and two daughters died in childhood. The other son, George B. Matthews, Mrs. Nelson's remaining brother, served four years in the One Hundredth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. One sister died at maturity, and three still survive.

SOURCE: Portrait And Biographical Album Of Jefferson And Van Buren Counties, Iowa, Lake City Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1890, p. 365-6

Iowa Troops at Fort Donelson

The Chicago Tribune of Wednesday republishes a list of the regiments engaged at Fort Donelson, and includes the following from Iowa: 2d, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 14th, making six in all.  It thus omits from its former list the 3d and 13th and includes the 10th regiment.  This is nearer the truth though not yet correct.  The 10th we think, was not in the engagement, although previous to the fight it was in camp at Cairo, under its able commander Col. Perczel, aching for an opportunity to show the world of what materials the Iowa boys are composed.  The 11th regiment was in Missouri at the time and could not possibly have been present.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 2

Third Regiment

Mr. Alonzo Keables, of Company B, 3d Iowa Infantry, passed through here yesterday.  He left his regiment at Cairo on Tuesday; so of course the Third was not at the taking of Fort Donelson, as was stated by the Chicago Tribune.  Mr. Keables says it was reported at Cairo that the Seventh had been again badly cut up at the late battle – losing 500 out of 630, the number it took into the field.  This, however, is not probably, as the whole number of lost according to all accounts, does not exceed 1,300 at the most, and it is not all probable that one regiment has such a large proportion, though there is too great reason to fear the Iowa troops have suffered heavily in the encounter.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 1

An Irish Patriot

The North Iowa Times publishes an obituary notice of John Lyon, a private in Co. C, 3d regiment Infantry who died at the St. Louis Military Hospital, and says:

He was at the battle of Blue Mills Landing, and behaved himself like a true soldier.  He leaves a wife and three children at McGregor.  It will be remembered that he did not enlist till the morning of the departure of the company, and while the steamer Canada was lying at our wharf ready to carry “the boys” to Keokuk, the writer of this tribute to his memory met him on that morning in soldier’s clothes and inquired  where he was going.  The reply was, “I am going to fight for my adopted country.” “But,” said I, “John, why didn’t you enlist a month ago, like most of your comrades, and not surprise your friends in this way?”  “Because, sir,” said the noble-hearted soldier, “I am too proud to let Relief Committees take care of my wife and children, while I have stout arms to labor for them.  I intended from the first to enlist, but I chose to provide for my little home, rather than to tramp up and down the streets and idle away that time, while they and myself would be dependent upon the liberality of the who public.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

The Cumberland Expedition

Officers and Troops Engaged.

From the Chicago Tribune.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio in command of the Federal Forces in the attack on Fort Donelson, entered West Point in 1839, was appointed to the 4th Infantry, U. S. A., in 1843, with rank of Second-Lieutenant.  He was transferred to the 17th infantry in 1845, was brevetted for gallant service at Moline del Ray in Mexico, and again at Chepultepec.  He was a captain in 1853, resigning the service the year following.  He resided in Galena at the outbreak of the rebellion and was appointed a Brigadier-General succeeding on such appointment General Prentiss on command at Cairo.

The following is Gen. Grant’s Staff:

Acting Major General	Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant
STAFF
Assistant Adj’t Gen	Maj. J. A. Rawlins
Quatermaster	Capt. Lawton
Medical Director	Maj. Jas. Simmons, M. D.
First Aid	Captain C. B. Lagone
Second Aid	Captain W. S. Hiller
Volunteer Aid	Captain Graham
Acting Chief Engineer	Colonel Webster
Brigade Surgeon	Captain Brinton, M. D.

THE GUNBOAT[S] AND THEIR OFFICERS.

The following are the officers in command of the fleet, which was brought into action and of each boat:

OFFICERS OF THE FLEET
Flag officers	ANDEREW H. FOOTE, U. S. N.
Fleet Captain	Commander A. M. Pennock, U. S. N.
Ordnance Officer	Lieutenant J. P. Sanford, U. S. N.
Ordnance Lieutenant	Byron Wilson
Flag Lieutenant	James N. Prickett
Flag Officer’s Secretary and Acting Paymaster-in-Chief	S. Heariques

GUNBOAT ESSEX.

Commander, H. D. Porter, U. S. N., first master, Robert K. Riley; Second Master, James Lanning

GUNBOAT CARONDELET.

Commander, Henry Walker, U. S. N.; First master, Richard K. Wade; Second Master, Jno. Dorety.

GUNBOAT CINCINNATI.

Commander, R. N. Stembel, U. S. N.; First Master, vacant; Second Master, ___ Pratt.

GUNBOAT ST. LOUIS.

Lieutenant Commanding, Leonard Paulding, U. S. N.; First Master, Saml. Black; Second Master, Jamey Y. Clemson.

GUNBOAT CONESTOGA.

Lieutenant commanding, Phelps, U. S. N.; First Master, John A. Duble; Second Master, Charles P. Nobel.

GUNBOAT TAYLOR.

Leitenant Commanding, W. Gwin, U. S. N.; First Master, Edward Saw; Second Master, Jason Goudy.

GUNBOAT LEXINGTON.

Lieutenant Commanding, J. W. Shirk, U. S. N.; First Master, Jacob S. Hurd; Second Master, Martin Dunn.

ARMAMENTS OF THE GUNBOATS

	Guns
Essex	9
Carondelet	18
Cincinnati	18
St. Louis	18
Conestoga	9
Taylor	9
Lexington	9

These guns are all in battery, and none are less than 32-pounders – some are 42-pounders, some 64-pounders, and one (on the Essex) throws a shell weighing one hundred and twenty-eight pounds.  In addition of these, each boat carries a Dahlgren rifled 12-pounder boat howitzer on the upper deck.  Several of the larger guns on each boat are rifled.

LIST OF THE LAND FORCES.

We give below a list of forty-two regiments and seven batteries, forming Gen. Grant’s army, to which should be added Gen. T. L. Crittenden’s command that has lately joined him, from Calhoun, Ky.  The entire force under Gen. Grant is hardly less than 50,000 men – an immense column, almost wholly the creation fo the last ten days.  Indeed regiments have been moving about so fast that it is next to impossible to keep track of them, and for this reason it is difficult to tell how the brigades and divisions have been formed.  The troops are as follows:

IOWA INFANTRY.

2d Iowa – Col. J. M. Tuttle.

3d Iowa – Col. N. G. Williams.

7th Iowa – Col. John G. Louman.

11th Iowa – Col. Abraham F. Hare.

12th Iowa – Col. Jackson S. Wood.

13th Iowa – Col. Marcellus M. Crocker.

14th Iowa – Col. William T. Shaw.

ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

7th – Col. John Cook, acting Brigadier General; Lieutenant Colonel, Andrew J. Babcock.

8th – Col. Richard J. Oglesby, Acting Brigadier General; Lieutenant Colonel, Frank L. Rhodes.

9th – Col. Augustus Mersey.

10th – Col. James D. Morgan.

11th – Col. Thomas E. R. Ransom.

12th – Col. John McArthur.

16th – Col. Robert F. Smith.

18th – Col. Michael K. Lawler.

20th – Col. Carroll A Marsh.

22d – Col Henry Dougherty, (invalid); Lieut. Co. H. E. Hart.

27th – Col. Napoleon B. Buford.

28th -  Col. Amory K. Johnson.

29th – Col. James S. Reardon.

30th – Col. Philip B. Fouke, absent; Lieut. Colonel, E. L. Dennis.

31st – Col. John A. Logan.

32d – Col John Logan.

41st – Col. Isaac C. Pugh.

45th – Col. John E. Smith.

46th – Col. John A. Davis.

48th – Col. Isham N. Haynie.

49th – Col. Wm. R. Morrison, wounded; Lieut. Colonel, Thomas G. Allen.

50th – Col. – Moses M. Bane.

52d – Lieut. Col. John S. Wilcox.

55th – Col. David Stuart.

57th – Col. S. D. Baldwin.

ILLINOIS CAVALRY.

2d Regiment – Col. Silas Noble.

3d Regiment – Col. Eugene A. Carr.

4th Regiment Col. T. Lyle Dickey.

7th Regiment – Col. Wm. Pitt Kellogg.

ILLINOIS ARTILLERY.

Batteries – Schwartz’s, Dresser’s, Taylor’s McAllister’s, Richardson’s, Willard’s and Buell’s, in all thirty four guns.

TROOPS FROM OTHER STATES.

8th Missouri – Col. Morgan L. Smith.

13th Missouri – Col Crafts J. Wright.

1st Mo. Artillery – Col. Totten.

11th Indiana – Col. Geo. F. McGinnis.

23d Indiana – Col. Wm. L. Sanderson.

48th Indiana – Col. Norman Eddy.

52d Indiana – Col. James M. Smith.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 2