Showing posts with label Guides. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 7, 1861

On the 5th instant a scouting party, under Captain Lawson, started for Middle Fork bridge, a point eighteen miles from camp. At eight o'clock last night, when I brought the battalion from the drill-ground, I found that a messenger had arrived with intelligence that Lawson had been surrounded by a force of probably four hundred, and that, in the engagement, one of his men had been killed and three wounded. The camp was alive with excitement. Each company of the Third had contributed five men to Captain Lawson's detachment, and each company, therefore, felt a special interest in it. The messenger stated that Captain Lawson was in great need of help, and General McClellan at once ordered four companies of infantry and twenty mounted men to move to his assistance. I had command of the detachment, and left camp about nine o'clock P. M., accompanied by a guide. The night was dark. My command moved on silently and rapidly. After proceeding about three miles, we left the turnpike and turned onto a narrow, broken, bad road, leading through the woods, which we followed about eight miles, when we met Captain Lawson's detachment on its way back. Here we removed the wounded from the farm wagon in which they had been conveyed thus far, to an ambulance brought with us for the purpose, countermarched, and reached our quarters about three o'clock this morning.

I will not undertake to give the details of Captain Lawson's skirmish. I may say, however, that the number of the enemy killed and wounded, lacerated and torn, by Corporal Casey, was beyond all computation. Had the rebels not succeeded in getting a covered bridge between themselves and the invincible Irishman, he would, if we may believe his own statement, have annihilated the whole force, and brought back the head of their commanding officer on the point of his bayonet.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 14-5

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Iowa's Civil War Newspapers

The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye
  • Anamosa Eureka
  • Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye­
  • Burlington Daily Argus
  • Cass County Gazette
  • Cedar Falls Gazette
  • Cedar Valley Times
  • Charles City Intelligencer
  • Clinton Herald
  • Council Bluffs Bugle
  • Davenport Daily Gazette
  • Davenport Daily Leader
  • Davenport Democrat & News
  • Daily Des Moines Times
  • Dubuque Daily Evening Union
  • Dubuque Democratic Herald
  • Dubuque Herald
  • Dubuque Religious News Letter
  • Dubuque Times
  • Dubuque Weekly Times
  • The Fort Dodge Republican
  • Fort Madison Plaindealer
  • The Glenwood Opinion
  • Hardin Sentinel
  • Independence Guardian
  • Indianola Visitor
  • Iowa City Republican
  • Iowa Homestead
  • Iowa State Register
  • Iowa State Weekly Register
  • Iowa Valley News
  • Keokuk Constitution
  • Keokuk Gate City
  • Keosaqua Republican
  • Linn County Patriot
  • Linn County Register
  • Maquoketa Excelsior
  • Marion Herald
  • Marshall County Times
  • Marshall Times and News
  • McGregor Times
  • Monticello Express
  • Muscatine Journal
  • The Opinion
  • Osceola Republican
  • Osceola Union Sentinel
  • Oskaloosa Herald
  • Oskaloosa Times
  • Ottumwa Courier
  • Ottumwa Mercury
  • Page County Herald
  • Panora Ledger
  • Sigourney News
  • Sioux City Register
  • Tipton Advertiser
  • Vinton Eagle
  • Wapello Democratic Mercury
  • Washington Press
  • Waterloo Courier
  • West Union, Pioneer

Monday, September 10, 2012

The Iowa Monuments At Shiloh National Military Park

Iowa State Memorial Monument


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


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

Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Mortuary Monuments of Shiloh National Military Park

Commanding the Confederate Army

Commanding the 2nd Division,
Army of the Tennessee

Commanding the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division of Bragg’s Corps,
Army of the Army of the Mississippi

Commanding the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division,
Army of the Tennessee

Colonel Everett Peabody, 25th Missouri Infantry, US
Commanding the 1st Brigade, 6th Division
Army of the Tennessee