We have battalion drill now every afternoon, and today our regiment was reviewed by General Chambers. A division of the Sixteenth Army Corp...

Our brigade returned to the bridge and went into camp, with Colonel Chambers in command of the entire post. Our army field hospital is loca...

News came that there was fighting at Jackson, Mississippi, General Sherman having pushed Johnston back to that point. Troops are passing on...

A high wind today ended in rain tonight. Colonel Chambers of the Sixteenth Iowa, who has been commanding our brigade, left for Vicksburg th...

We lay still again today, but all improved their time cleaning up their accouterments. We drew two days' rations, which relieved our hu...

CAMP NEAR PITTSBURG, Tenn., May 4, 1862. EDITOR GAZETTE. – I have been intending to write to you for some time, but our frequent movi...

HEADQUARTERS 16TH IOWA VOL. CAMP NEAR PITTSBURG LANDING, TENN., April 12, 1862. To the Ass’t Adjt. Gen., Army Tennessee: SIR. –...

We are asked so frequently whether we have had anything late from our brother, Add. H., that the following extract from a brief letter rece...

No. 84. Report of Col. Alexander Chambers, Sixteenth Iowa Infantry (of the Second Brigade). HDQRS. SIXTEENTH IOWA VOLS., THIRD B...

No. 85. Report of Col. Hugh T. Reid, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry. I have the honor to report that the Fifteenth Regiment of Iowa Volunt...

(Correspondence of the Democrat.) CROSS TIMBERS, Ark., March 20. – Supplies, forage and provisions, having become exhausted in the regi...

November 22, 1906 _____ 9:25 A. M. Music Fifty-fifth Iowa Regimental Band “America” Address: Major H. C. McArthur, Fiftee...

WOUNDED AT IUKA This soldier was born in New York about 1832; was graduated from the Military Academy in 1853, and was made second l...

Our company was sworn into the United States service today, by Captain Alexander Chambers of the regular army. Four men were rejected, whi...

IOWA TO HER 16TH INFANTRY. MILLER’S (2D) BRIGADE. PRENTISS’ (6TH) DIVISION. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE IOWA 16TH ...

A correspondent of the Dubuque Times – in whose initials we recognize Mr. Frank Doyle, formerly a printer of that city – thus speaks of the...

BENTON BARRACKS, St. Louis, March 22, 1862. EDITOR OF GAZETTE. – Knowing the interest of your readers in the progress of the Iowa 16 th , I...

Col. Chambers yesterday received a dispatch from Gen. Halleck, ordering the 16 th to be ready for marching orders.   When these men go, ou...

Alexander Chambers, son of Alex, and Sarah (McDougall) Chambers, born August 23, 1832, in Ellicottsville, N.Y.   He was Colonel of 16th Iowa...

CHAMBERS, Alexander , soldier, b. in New York state about 1832. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1853, and made second lieu...