CONFIDENTIAL.]   WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, October 21 , 1862 . Ordered, That Major-General McClernand be, and he is, directed...

THIRTY-FIRST INFANTRY. William Smyth was born in the year 1824. England, Scotland and Ireland are all represented among the Iowa colonels. C...

John M. Hedrick, of Ottumwa, was the third and last Colonel of the Regiment. He entered as 1st Lieutenant of Company D, became Captain of Co...

SIXTEENTH INFANTRY. Alexander Chambers is thirty-two years of age, and a native of the State of New York. I know little more of his history ...

THIRD COLONEL, FIFTEENTH INFANTRY. John Morrow Hedrick is a native of Indiana, the State which stands third, in the number of her sons, who,...

SECOND COLONEL, FIFTEENTH INFANTRY. William Worth Belknap, the successor of Colonel Reid to the colonelcy of the 15th Iowa Infantry, is a so...

SECOND COLONEL, THIRTEENTH INFANTRY. John Shane was born in the county of Jefferson, Ohio, on the 26th of May, 1822, and was educated at Jef...

FIRST COLONEL, THIRTEENTH INFANTRY. Marcellus M. Crocker is a native of Johnson county, Indiana, where he was born on the 6th day of Februar...