FOURTH COLONEL, FIRST CAVALRY. William Thompson was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in about the year 1814. He came to Iowa while it was ...

FORTIETH INFANTRY. John A. Garrett is a native of Carlisle, Sullivan county, Indiana, and was born on the 15th day of November, 1824. He was...

COLONEL, TWENTY-NINTH INFANTRY. Thomas Hart Benton, Jr., is a nephew of the celebrated American statesman and author, whose name, at his unc...

COLONEL, EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY. John Edwards was born the 24th day of October, 1815, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, and lived with his paren...