There was tremenduous heavy firing last night from 11 to 1. the sky was lighted with the flash of small arms, could not determine whether i...

Organized in McLean County and mustered in August 20, 1862. Moved to Benton Barracks, Mo., August 25, 1862, thence to Rolla, Mo., September...

The State of Iowa had sent into the field eighteen full regiments of infantry at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation calling ...

THIRD COLONEL TWENTY-THIRD INFANTRY. Samuel L. Glasgow is the youngest officer of his rank from Iowa. He is a native of Ohio, and was born i...

TWENTIETH INFANTRY. William McE. Dye was born in the State of Pennsylvania, about the year 1831. At the time of entering the volunteer servi...

NINETEENTH INFANTRY. Benjamin Crabb, of the 19th Iowa Infantry, is a native of Ohio, and was born in the year 1821. I am ignorant of his ear...

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