Ensign H. King is one of our soldier ministers. We have enough of them to make a goodly Veteran's Society. Their annual camp fires light...

William W. Estabrook was the First Chaplain of the Regiment. He was an Episcopal Clergyman of character and education, who had left the prof...

The organization of the Fifteenth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry began prior to Sept. 5, 1861, but the precise date is not revealed in ...

Ensign H. King was the second Adjutant. He enlisted as a private at Osceola, Clarke county, Iowa in 1861, and was First Sergeant of Company ...

Hedq’r’s 15th Iowa Infantry, In The Line, Big Shanty, Ga. June 18th, 1864 Mr. Caverly: – If a few items in pencil, written under difficultie...

FIRST COLONEL, FIFTEENTH INFANTBY. Hugh Thompson Reid was born in Union county, Indiana, the 8th day of October, 1811. His father, who was a...

Headq’rs 15th Iowa Holmes’ Plantation May 7th, 1863 Mr. Caverly: My long silence arises less from a want in my desire to communicate with yo...

H’d Q’r’s 15th Iowa Infantry, Nickajack Creek, Ga. July 7th, 1864 Mr. Caverly:– I have been so very busy night and day since writing you las...

Altoona [sic], Ga., June 18th, 1864. Mr. Caverly:– I saw young Gregg, who lives near your place yesterday. He is in the Field Hospital, nea...

Headquarters 15th Iowa Inft. Vols Vicksburg Miss. Jan 23d, 1864 Mr. Caverly:– It seems as but yesterday since visiting you last, and I am qu...

Head Q’r’s. 15th Iowa Inft. V. V. Huntsville, Ala., May 24, 1864 Mr. Caverly:– This command – consisting of three brigades of Gen. Crocker’s...

Head Quarters 15th Iowa Inft. Clifton, Tenn., May 11, 1864 Mr. Caverly :– Again we are “in the field,” again enjoying the hardships of “Camp...

Headquarters, Iowa Inft. Vol’s Vicksburg Miss. Jan. 4th 1864 Mr. Caverly. – Thick clouds overspreading the sky. The rain is falling in gen...

Headqu’r’s 15th Iowa Inft. Vol’s. Vicksburg Miss. Dec. 28th 1863 Mr. Caverly:- How vain are the thoughts and imagination of man! In one sh...

In this place by the Rev. H. B. Heacock, on the 27th of March at the residence of the Bride’s Father, Adjutant E. H. King of the 15th Iowa ...

Headquarters 15th Iowa Inft Vol’s. Vicksburg Miss. Nov 21st 1863 Mr. Cavely:- Night’s Sable curtain has long since intercepted the bright ra...